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		potus_kushner on Feb 6, 2025 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Tell HN: Cloudflare is blocking Pale Moon and othe... if the purpose of cloudflare is to block bots and allow humans in, then they fail miserably at their job. what they're doing instead can be summarized in one word: DISCRIMINATION. welcome to the age of internet apartheid.

bdhcuidbebe on Feb 6, 2025 [–]

They are so successful in blocking noob scrapers that an entire industry is blooming around professional web scraping services.

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