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fabian2kyesterday at 9:14 PM1 replyview on HN

Sufficiently aggressive and inconsiderate scraping is indistinguishable from a DDOS attack.


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chrisjjyesterday at 10:39 PM

No scraper seeks to deny the service it needs.

And no responsible site operator unable to distinguish should claim DDOS.

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