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		yunwal on Sept 14, 2023 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: I think I kind of hate lazy loading If you aren’t on comparison sites at all because of your anti-scraping measures, is that better?

flotzam on Sept 14, 2023 [–]

Not to defend the practice but I think the intent is to allow scraping (or API access) only by the price comparison site but not by competitors. (Why wouldn't the competitors then just scrape the price comparison site? Because that site also has anti-scraping measures in place...)

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