IP restrictions are easy to overcome using mobile networks. Basically, mobile networks assigns your device an internal ip and NATs out to a very small pool of ip public addresses. If they block you, they also block a very large chunk of legitimate mobile users. I'm a big ol' dummy when it comes to networking, so I imagine I explained something poorly... so any mobile network nerds feel free to pile on!

Captchas are super easy! There's a gagillion captcha bypass services for every type of captcha. Just snag the captcha token, send it in an API call, and then you get a verified captcha token.

See CGNAT for more details about mobile networks. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carrier-grade_NAT#cite_note-of...

It's pretty much impossible to stop the top 1% of the most dedicated scrapers without affecting end user experience.