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APIs vs Web Scrapers (infosec.pub)

submitted 2 weeks ago by cm0002@lemmy.world to c/programmer_humor@programming.dev

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[–] mspencer712@programming.dev 15 points 2 weeks ago (2 children)

I feel like there should be a third box with Wall Street raider types, for scrapers that use Selenium browser automation.

I don’t think it’s entirely unblockable - adsense seems to know to only serve unmonetized PSA ads - but I think it’s very difficult to discriminate between “this is a real browser controlled by an end user” and “this is a real browser being controlled by automated test software”.

[–] erytau@programming.dev 5 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Fourth panel as well, with those bots collecting data for AI training that don't respect your robots.txt, change user agents and overload your servers

[–] dejected_warp_core@lemmy.world 1 points 1 week ago

War boys from Fury Road?