• mspencer712
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    3 days ago

    I feel like there should be a third box with Wall Street raider types, for scrapers that use Selenium browser automation.

    I don’t think it’s entirely unblockable - adsense seems to know to only serve unmonetized PSA ads - but I think it’s very difficult to discriminate between “this is a real browser controlled by an end user” and “this is a real browser being controlled by automated test software”.

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      3 days ago

      Fourth panel as well, with those bots collecting data for AI training that don’t respect your robots.txt, change user agents and overload your servers