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Comment by ComputerPerson

There are definitely patterns you can use against the scrapers. This maintainer just didn't have time for it, which is understandable.

We direct scraper traffic to a bot-specific server using Cloudflare's load balancer, slowly analyzing traffic and adding conditions one at a time. No accidental scraper DDoS in a long time.

Most scrapers are relatively honest in some way shape or form.

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