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hyperhelloyesterday at 5:44 PM2 repliesview on HN

If the scrapers are going to get it anyway, put the data up as a zip somewhere.


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jjgreenyesterday at 5:56 PM

It would not make any difference.

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antisthenesyesterday at 7:46 PM

> Read the Docs, a non-profit that hosts documentation for open-source software, who watched a single crawler download 73 terabytes of zipped HTML in one month, costing it over $5,000 in bandwidth

From the article.

Not the same site, but an example of the same issue.