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    17 days ago

    Even we quite often use Cloud flare. Those who resisted at first often changed their mind after getting hit with bot scraping DNS attacks. It’s not trivially easy to deploy alternatives.

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      17 days ago

      One Big Tech company blasts small websites with nonconsensual AI data scraping, while another Big Tech company offers protection… as long as they can watch everybody interact with your site.

      Mafia-esque.

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        17 days ago

        Perhaps the best ones?

        It does incur quite the cost though, if only in initial set-up time, so I can see where some people may have a desire to avoid it, for a time.