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They’re already ignoring robots.txt, so I’m not sure why anyone would think they won’t just ignore this too. All they have to do is get a new IP and change their useragent.
Cloudflare is protecting a lot of sites from scraping with their POW captchas. They could allow people who pay
As someone who uses invidious daily I’ve always been of the belief if you don’t want something scraped, then maybe don’t upload it to a public web page/server.
Imagine a company that sells a lot of products online. Now imagine a scraping bot coming at peak sales hours and looking at each product list and page separately for said service. Now realise that some genuine users will have a worse buying experience because of that.
Yeah there’s way easier ways to combat that without trying to prevent scraping.
Maybe don’t ship 20 units to the same address.
There’s probably not many people here who understand the connection between Invidious and scraping.
How can I do this without Cloudflare?
Put a page on your website saying that scrapping your website costs [insert amount] and block the bots otherwise.
The hard part is reliably detecting the bots
