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Hmm, I may have to update my project to include this sort of junk data in the response body of its API calls.

It sure would be amusing if most of HN did this. Everybody has to do their part, right?

You'd be wasting your time as there is no feedback as to whether your attempts have worked to frustrate their targeting, and that's the best case scenario. The worst case is that someone picks up on your efforts and casually flags you to make your life more difficult - extra searches at borders, no fly list, and so on.

Nope

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