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Protocols like HTTP or formats like HTML were initially made to be machine-readable. You humans make your site machine-readable, publish on the internet and then get unhappy when machines start actually reading it.

Anyway, just put a captcha or require a cryptocurrency payment if you are unhappy with bots, but several people unhappy about scraping are less important than billion people unhappy about tracking their activity.



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