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Comment by bdhcuidbebe

> But how do they bypass the paywall?

I’m guessing by using a residential botnet and using existing credentials by unknowingly ”victims” by automating their browsers.

> Otherwise, the saved page would contain information about the logged-in user.

If you read this article, theres plenty of evidence they are manipulating the scraped data.

But I’m just speculating here…

parent bdhcuidbebe 8 months ago

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