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Re: Show HN: Fortress – a stealth Chromium so your agents stop getting blocked

#4

odd name; shouldn't it be named after something that stealthily infiltrates fortresses?

fellow contributor on this.

we thought of it the other way round: your automation is the fortress, and every bot-detector trying to fingerprint it is the siege.

also most good burglar names were taken on PyPI

Re: Show HN: Fortress – a stealth Chromium so your agents stop getting blocked

#5
Is 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.

Re: Show HN: Fortress – a stealth Chromium so your agents stop getting blocked

#6

odd name; shouldn't it be named after something that stealthily infiltrates fortresses?

fellow contributor on this. we thought of it the other way round: your automation is the fortress, and every bot-detector trying to fingerprint it is the siege. also most good burglar names were taken on PyPI

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Re: Show HN: Fortress – a stealth Chromium so your agents stop getting blocked

#7

odd name; shouldn't it be named after something that stealthily infiltrates fortresses?

fellow contributor on this. we thought of it the other way round: your automation is the fortress, and every bot-detector trying to fingerprint it is the siege. also most good burglar names were taken on PyPI

in my defence, i did lobby hard for "GuyWhoWavesYouThroughTheGate"

Re: Show HN: Fortress – a stealth Chromium so your agents stop getting blocked

#8

Earlier quoted context omitted.

fellow contributor on this. we thought of it the other way round: your automation is the fortress, and every bot-detector trying to fingerprint it is the siege. also most good burglar names were taken on PyPI

in my defence, i did lobby hard for "GuyWhoWavesYouThroughTheGate"

"Doorman"

Re: Show HN: Fortress – a stealth Chromium so your agents stop getting blocked

#9

Is 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.

It's most definitely unethical.
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