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points by sampullman 3 days ago | 0 comments

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.

Anyone who thinks blocking datacenter ips helps with blocking scraping is a clown.

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 3 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.