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points by stopsayingsorry 2 days ago | 0 comments
>But I don't see that happening.

Then you are not looking. Already have to switch to resi proxies from time to time when encountering yet another smartass who decided to play security theater and block datacenter ips on his shitpile he calls website, because "OUR USERS MUST BE GOOD BOYS WHO LOVE TO LIVE UNDER SURVILANCE AND ALLOW ISP TO TRACK THEM 24/7" (and before you say something like "others can track you too!", your ISP has the ability to knock on your door, they should be given as little information as possible, let them do metadata analysis on per-person basis if they really want it, but no 1-click mass surveillance shit).

If you are valuable, you will be be scraped. Turning user hostile in a hopeless endeavor to "protect yourself" is not the solution.

[–] hypfer 2 days ago
I can see that you're having strong emotions about this, but that rant is just hard to read and serves primarily as venting and not really to convince anyone of anything.

Unless one zooms out and thinks "okay, these guys seem to react negatively if we do exactly that. We should do more of it", which is probably not what you want.

[–] sampullman 2 days ago
It's hostile to you personally, but I wouldn't call it "user hostile".

Blocking "scrapping [sic]" is also not security theater, you misunderstand the intent of GP.

[–] stopsayingsorry 2 days ago
Anyone who thinks blocking datacenter ips helps with blocking scraping is a clown.
[–] sampullman 2 days ago
It does, measurably. A massively popular site is going to get hammered with more advanced types of scraping, but they're going to have a team that can more easily mitigate it.

A site that doesn't care about corporate users basically loses nothing.

[–] anonreplier 2 days ago
exactly, there are lots of other more effective ways to block the likes of you
[–] stopsayingsorry 2 days ago
Let's hope you enjoy killing your real userbase with collateral damage, because that's the only thing you are going to accomplish.
[–] wtch98 2 days ago
I trust my ISP far more than I trust bigtech. The downside of connecting from my ISP is that the site I connect to can fingerprint me trivially from the IP range