This comic follows on from the Previous comic which will almost certainly provide context.
You might not wanna be famous, but when you’re level 10, every organization within a mile is watching what you’re doing.
7 points
I am not sure if it costs money, but you could implement captchas.
Or use cloudflare to do that bot detecting for you.
Worst case you make it so you need to create an account to see content.
4 points
Well, we are already using cloudflare, that’s one of the other reasons why the site is so slow… I don’t think the other two suggestions prevent a scraper from requesting the information from the server… I think they’d just make it more arduous for real people to access the content.
