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[–] [email protected] 7 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago) (3 children)

What are some strategies for doing that? (This is me, totally not a bot)

[–] [email protected] 4 points 7 months ago
[–] [email protected] 2 points 7 months ago

Lets see, since the goal is to prevent webscaping all these should work: paywalls, account only acsess, text obferscation (e.g. using a custom font that maps letters randomly to other ones so it looks fine but to a webscraper it looks like gibberish), HTML obferscation (inserting random characters in the HTML then hiding them using CSS) and many more.