| ▲ | nonrandomstring a day ago | |||||||||||||||||||
> blame here are solely the ones employing these fingerprinting techniques, Sure. And it's a tragedy. But when you look at the bot situation and the sheer magnitude of resource abuse out there, you have to see it from the other side. FWIW the conversation mentioned above, we acknowledged that and moved on to talk about behavioural fingerprinting and why it makes sense not to focus on the browser/agent alone but what gets done with it. | ||||||||||||||||||||
| ▲ | NavinF a day ago | parent [-] | |||||||||||||||||||
Last time I saw someone complaining about scrapers, they were talking about 100gib/month. That's 300kbps. Less than $1/month in IP transit and ~$0 in compute. Personally I've never noticed bots show up on a resource graph. As long as you don't block them, they won't bother using more than a few IPs and they'll backoff when they're throttled | ||||||||||||||||||||
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