A year of fighting scrapers on my 1.5 million-page website

	A year of fighting scrapers on my 1.5 million-page website(patronview.com)
	446 points by petercooper 14 days ago \| 411 comments
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	HN Discussion: ↓Concern that relying on Cloudflare centralizes gatekeeping and harms the open web ↑Shared frustration with bot traffic and empathy for the author's struggle ~Suggests alternative technical solutions like Anubis or dropping D1 for static hosting ↑AI scrapers extract value without sending referral traffic or compensation •Questions or notes irony about scraping motivations and the author being a scraper themselves