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Also suspect those working on "anti-bot" solutions may have a hand in this.

What better way to show the effectiveness of your solution, than to help create the problem in the first place.




Why? When there are 100s of hopeful AI/LLM scrapers more than willing to do that work for you what possible reason would you have to do that work? The more typical and common human behavior is perfectly capable of explaining this. No reason to reach for some kind of underhanded conspiracy theory when simple incompetence and greed is more than adequate to explain it.


CF hosts websites that sell DDoS services.

Google really wants everyone to use its spyware-embedded browser.

There are tons of other "anti-bot" solutions that don't have a conflict of interest with those goals, yet the ones that become popular all seem to further them instead.




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