A funny side effect of the crackdown on "AI" scraping is that I keep getting banned from sites for browsing too quickly.
I barely use reddit anymore and I still managed to get IP banned for scraping while I was clicking on posts with no automation (I got an error page basically suggesting I contact reddit if I want a license to their data instead of scraping).
Dan Luu
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2024-11-04 21:39:57 UTC
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