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I can say this will give a lot of businesses false sense of security. It is already bypassable.

the Web scraping technology that I am aware of has reached end game already: Unless you are prepared to authenticate every user/visitor to your website with a dollar sign, lobby congress to pass a bill to outlaw web scraping, you will not be able to stop web scraping in 2021 and beyond.

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But what about captchas?

Due to aggressive no-script and uBlock use I, browsing the website as a human, keep getting hit by captchas and my success rate is falling to a coinflip. If there's a script to automate that I'm all ears.

100% doable. Like I said these type of blanket throttling seems to be the new trend but it's already defeated.

I just no longer see it possible to 1) put information on the web (private or public) 2) give access outside your organization (customers or visitors) 3) expect your website will not be scraped.

ToS is NOT the law unfortunately.

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