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Yea, this seems so incredibly wrong to me. How somebody can write that, and not reel from comprehending the implications of what they're doing to their child, is so far beyond me.


Oh give it a break, KYLE ...


> The worker got confused and put it on my sandwich.

No, this is where you're completely and totally incorrect. There is no 'worker accidentally making a human mistake that costs you money' here. This is a 'multi-billion dollar company routinely runs scripts that they KNOW cost you money, but do it anyways because it generates profit for them'. To fix your example,

You RUN a Subway that sells sandwiches. Your lettuce provider charges you $1 per piece of lettuce. Your average customer is given $1 worth of lettuce in their sub. One customer keeps coming in, reaching over the counter, and grabbing handfuls of lettuce. You cannot ban this customer because they routinely put on disguises and ignore your signs saying 'NO EXTRA LETTUCE'. Eventually this bankrupts you, forces you to stop serving lettuce in your subs entirely, or you have to put up bars (eg, Cloudflare) over your lettuce bins.


> The problem here isn't the crawlers,

One of the worst takes I've seen. Yes, that's expensive, but the individuals doing insane amounts of unnecessary scraping are the problem. Let's not act like this isn't the case.


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