alt Hacker NewsSo it's ethical to bypass bot restrictions and rate limits by pretending to be a bunch of residential connections?
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dewey • 11/04/2025
Not much different than blocking access to people without JS enabled, blocking people stuck behind NAT, blocking whole countries or require them to solve Cloudflare captchas.
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If it’s to enable users to fetch their own data, it’s absolutely ethical. These websites can offer API’s so people can access their own data “above the board” but instead make it incredibly difficult.