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This is Cloudflare. They have an extremely strong incentive to increase bot usage. If there is no bot scrapping the internet they'll be out of business.


I've been using cloudflares remote browser api to bypass their own WAFs for my scrapers for a while, their products and services have been wildly contradictory for a while.


This particular example is not contradictory if you think about it, its essentially a protection racket.


I hate that I never considered this before.




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