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1. dontre+(OP)[view] [source] 2023-05-31 20:27:23
Why wouldn’t people then just scrape using the free API?
replies(2): >>nawgz+t7 >>bluefi+Da
2. nawgz+t7[view] [source] 2023-05-31 21:05:45
>>dontre+(OP)
Most users are not technical

Most technical users are still happy to use a GUI over writing their own scraper / visualizer

3. bluefi+Da[view] [source] 2023-05-31 21:23:35
>>dontre+(OP)
You can throttle APIs so they are still useful for a human browsing content, but essentially worthless for scraping meaningful amounts of data.

You can also detect accounts that are displaying scraping behavior and block them.

replies(1): >>dontre+Zm
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4. dontre+Zm[view] [source] [discussion] 2023-05-31 22:31:47
>>bluefi+Da
An LLM only has to download text once. You could easily coordinate a scrape across various IPs and accounts over the course of a couple of months and it would be really hard to detect. Especially if you target alternate GUI api based versions of the site.
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