• Venia Silente@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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    9 days ago

    All scrapers need to do is use shared IPs (e.g. cloud providers),

    Simple: just charge the cloud provider.

    Once that gets strong enough they’ll start placing terms against scraping in their TOS.

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      9 days ago

      And then they just throw it in the bin because there was never a contract between you and them. What to do then? Sue Microsoft, Amazon and Google

      I’m sure Codeberg, a German non-profit Verein, has time and money to do that 🤣.

      • Venia Silente@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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        6 days ago

        Sure but that’s a whole different part of the system. Society as a whole has to change (some guillotines would help) and no matter how cool Codeberg is, they can’t do all that on their own.

        In the meantime, what the elites visibly respond to and that is more readily accessible is monetary costs. Make it costly (operationally or legally) to scrape sites, and they’ll stop if at least to whine.