ScottWRobinson

Author here. I wasn't trying to imply that this is a commonly used phrase nowadays. You can see from the sources I linked, there is definitely history to HCF and even some truth to its phrase. But yes, it was mostly a joke

I mean, it is the thing that made me go down this rabbit hole. Need to watch it now!

IIRC there are ways to give an authentic-looking fingerprint to browsers used for scraping. But as you said, it's a cat and mouse game

Can't tell if someone is unchecking/checking my boxes or if it's lag and my own previous (mistake) checks coming back from the server lol