SerotoninSwells

This is correct. I work in bot detections. There are baseline checks for various browser automation used as bot frameworks like Puppeteer or Playwright. Then there is basic analysis of server side and client side fingerprints; meaning, do the fingerprints you claim make sense. There are other heuristics too and I imagine Cloudflare is monitoring movements that point to automation. All of this happens after you click. I personally prefer this over Google's captcha which frequently doesn't recognize me as a human but is easily bypassed by bots.

Wild to see Yuma mentioned let alone the Toys R Us that my mother managed.

Good question. Like pizza, nigiri sushi, and a slice of pumpkin pie, this is toast.

Thanks for the in-depth response!

Thank you!

Wie sagt man "Kadser" auf Englisch? Ich denke Katze aber mein Deutsch ist Amerikanisch. ☺️

I agree and I wish I was actually that cool. I just look at data all day and write rules. 🫠

I'm consistently proud of Lemmy because of comments like this. It might sound weird, but clearly pizza is great in a multitude of ways. Not everything needs an edgelord's hot take.

I'm a blade runner. 😁

I don't think it's a bad idea but it's largely dependent on the crawler. I can't speak for AI based crawlers, but typical scraping targets specific elements on a page or grabbing the whole page and parsing it for what you're looking for. In both instances, your content is already scrapped and added to the pile. Overall, I have to wonder how long "poisoning the water well" is going to work. You can take me with a grain of salt, though; I work on detecting bots for a living.

I just farted.