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

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.