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I suppose this will become an arms race, just like with ad-blockers and ad-blocker detection/circumvention measures.
There will be solutions for scraper-blockers/traps. Then those become more sophisticated. Then the scrapers become better again and so on.

I don’t really see an end to this madness. Such a huge waste of resources.

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pyre@lemmy.world ⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago
there is an end: you legislate it out of existence. unfortunately the US politicians instead are trying to outlaw any regulations regarding AI instead. I’m sure it’s not about the money.

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enbiousenvy@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago
the rise of LLM companies scraping internet is also, I noticed, the moment YouTube is going harsher against adblockers or 3rd party viewer.

Piped or Invidious instances that I used to use are no longer works, did so may other instances. NewPipe have been broken more frequently. youtube-dl or yt-dlp sometimes cannot fetch higher resolution video. and so sometimes the main youtube side is broken on Firefox with ublock origin.

Not just youtube but also z-library, and especially sci-hub & libgen also have been harder to use sometimes.

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arararagi@ani.social ⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago
Well, the adblockers are still wining, even on twitch where the ads como from the same pipeline as the stream, people made solutions that still block them since ublock origin couldn’t by itself.

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- JayGray91@piefed.social ⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago
  What do you use to block twitch ads? With UBO I still get the occasional ad marathon
  
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  - arararagi@ani.social ⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago
    github.com/pixeltris/TwitchAdSolutions
    
    I use the video swap one.
    
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glibg@lemmy.ca ⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago
Madness is right. If only we didn’t have to create these things to generate dollar.

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- MonkeMischief@lemmy.today ⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago
  I feel like the down-vote squad misunderstood you here.
  
  I think I agree: If people made software they actually wanted , for human people , and less for the incentive of “easiest way to automate generation of dollarinos.” I think we’d see a lot less sophistication and effort being put into such stupid things.
  
  These things are made by the greedy, or by employees of the greedy.
  
  Ever since the Internet put on a suit and tie and everything became abou real-life money-sploitz, even malware is boring anymore.
  
  New dangerous exploit? 99% chance it’s just another twist on a crypto-miner or ransomware.
  
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