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[–] [email protected] 45 points 8 hours ago (4 children)

I suppose this will become an arms race, just like with ad-blockers and ad-blocker detection/circumvention measures.
There will be solutions for scraper-blockers/traps. Then those become more sophisticated. Then the scrapers become better again and so on.

I don't really see an end to this madness. Such a huge waste of resources.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 hour ago

Well, the adblockers are still wining, even on twitch where the ads como from the same pipeline as the stream, people made solutions that still block them since ublock origin couldn't by itself.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 3 hours ago

the rise of LLM companies scraping internet is also, I noticed, the moment YouTube is going harsher against adblockers or 3rd party viewer.

Piped or Invidious instances that I used to use are no longer works, did so may other instances. NewPipe have been broken more frequently. youtube-dl or yt-dlp sometimes cannot fetch higher resolution video. and so sometimes the main youtube side is broken on Firefox with ublock origin.

Not just youtube but also z-library, and especially sci-hub & libgen also have been harder to use sometimes.

[–] [email protected] 16 points 6 hours ago

there is an end: you legislate it out of existence. unfortunately the US politicians instead are trying to outlaw any regulations regarding AI instead. I'm sure it's not about the money.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 7 hours ago

Madness is right. If only we didn't have to create these things to generate dollar.