>But I don't see that happening.

Then you are not looking. Already have to switch to resi proxies from time to time when encountering yet another smartass who decided to play security theater and block datacenter ips on his shitpile he calls website, because "OUR USERS MUST BE GOOD BOYS WHO LOVE TO LIVE UNDER SURVILANCE AND ALLOW ISP TO TRACK THEM 24/7" (and before you say something like "others can track you too!", your ISP has the ability to knock on your door, they should be given as little information as possible, let them do metadata analysis on per-person basis if they really want it, but no 1-click mass surveillance shit).

If you are valuable, you will be be scraped. Turning user hostile in a hopeless endeavor to "protect yourself" is not the solution.

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hypfer 3 hours ago | parent | next [-]

I can see that you're having strong emotions about this, but that rant is just hard to read and serves primarily as venting and not really to convince anyone of anything.

Unless one zooms out and thinks "okay, these guys seem to react negatively if we do exactly that. We should do more of it", which is probably not what you want.

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stopsayingsorry 3 hours ago | parent [-]

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hypfer 3 hours ago | parent | next [-]

I mean I am very willing to just try and see what happens?

Maybe I'm an idiot and it is a bad idea. But also maybe not?

Isn't it good if I "showcase my incompetence and lose all respect"? Wouldn't that be beneficial to people that disagree with these ideas?

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stopsayingsorry 2 hours ago | parent [-]

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	▲	cavacavacava an hour ago \| parent \| next [-]
		Man I understand you. You are right on this particular subject. However if you are so angry it’s probably because of something in your life is wrong and not this person on HN. I am saying this as someone who did have very strong opinions on hacker news and in the end I just feel shameful about it. Take a big breather and think: « how can I have a nice day? ». It’s not that serious!
	▲	splatter9859 2 hours ago \| parent \| prev \| next [-]
		You seem to have some strong feels about this subject a bit disproportional to what the comment entails. I fail to see how someone sharing their opinion on HN equates to them having an "insignificant existence". I get the frustration, but perhaps changing the target somewhat might be in order here, no?
	▲	hypfer 2 hours ago \| parent \| prev [-]
		I have to ask: is this an LLM? :D Why would you just try the insulting harder? Why not pivot to literally any other strategy lmao I mean I guess this would work on a lot of people here, but three times in a row? Come on man. Skill issue

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lirolero 2 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

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sampullman 3 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-]

It's hostile to you personally, but I wouldn't call it "user hostile".

Blocking "scrapping [sic]" is also not security theater, you misunderstand the intent of GP.

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stopsayingsorry 3 hours ago | parent [-]

Anyone who thinks blocking datacenter ips helps with blocking scraping is a clown.

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sampullman 2 hours ago | parent | next [-]

It does, measurably. A massively popular site is going to get hammered with more advanced types of scraping, but they're going to have a team that can more easily mitigate it.

A site that doesn't care about corporate users basically loses nothing.

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anonreplier 2 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

exactly, there are lots of other more effective ways to block the likes of you

	▲	stopsayingsorry 2 hours ago \| parent [-]
		Let's hope you enjoy killing your real userbase with collateral damage, because that's the only thing you are going to accomplish.

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wtch98 2 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

I trust my ISP far more than I trust bigtech. The downside of connecting from my ISP is that the site I connect to can fingerprint me trivially from the IP range