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You just confused me with someone else. Cloudflare gives me a hard time as a user only. When you view a page with a proxy or shared IP address, you have to solve a captcha or enable JS to see any text with @ in it, and such insanities. Scraping is a user use case. Web crap is meant to be automateable and automatically navigible (though as a cattle user who sees it as an interactive one time experience, like someone walking into a shop, I can see how you see otherwise). Anyway it's easy to scrape even with Cloudflare, it just causes more bumps and adds to your fingerprint and makes the internet as a whole more insecure.


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