For agent/browser automation, getting blocked is only one part of the problem. The other hard part is knowing whether the page you got back is the real page, a degraded version, or some silent challenge page.
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#72The authors are proud of facilitating the theft of intellectual property. Disgusting.
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#73Is it possible to give negative stars to a GitHub repo? This one would be a prime candidate for that feature.
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#74Is it ethical to scrape when a site has explicitly blocked bots? I know a fair number of people who run small sites who are already considering closing them down because the bots are relentlessly hammering their sites and driving up hosting costs.
I suppose it's like trying to enforce no picture rule in public.
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#75The authors are proud of facilitating the theft of intellectual property. Disgusting.
Did you rage equally against the machine when wget --mirror came out?
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#76Earlier quoted context omitted.
which is exactly the problem, a condom is famous for stopping things getting through and we do the literal opposite.
Actually condoms are famous for being quite unreliable and failing. People using them are often uninformed and inept, using them incorrectly and hastily. This is exactly why they are distributed with gusto by certain services that profit from “surprise pregnancy”.
lolwtf, not expected a conspiracy I expected to see someone touting
Doesn't even make sense; clearly they have a non-zero preventative effect, so there would be no benefit from such a service[0] handing out condoms. It would be worse for them than doing nothing.
[0] I doubt a for-profit company just raking in dough from abortions exists, sounds like some dumbass Fox News bullshit, but admittedly, it is luckily not a space with which I am familiar lol
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#77Earlier quoted context omitted.
Actually condoms are famous for being quite unreliable and failing. People using them are often uninformed and inept, using them incorrectly and hastily. This is exactly why they are distributed with gusto by certain services that profit from “surprise pregnancy”.
lolwtf, not expected a conspiracy I expected to see someone touting Doesn't even make sense; clearly they have a non-zero preventative effect, so there would be no benefit from such a service[0] handing out condoms. It would be worse for them than doing nothing. [0] I doubt a for-profit company just raking in dough from abortions exists, sounds like some dumbass Fox News bullshit, but admittedly, it is luckily not a…
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