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Stop crawling my HTML you dickheads - use the API!

One of the (many) depressing things about the “AI” future in which we’re living, is that it exposes just how many people are willing to outsource their critical thinking. Brute force is preferred to thinking about how to efficiently tackle a problem. For some reason, my websites are regularly targetted by “scrapers” who want to gobble up all the HTML for their inscrutable purposes. The thing is, …

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