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Imagine playing the AI agent and scraper cat-and-mouse game all for Cloudflare to block them all by default all to navigate web pages and waste millions worth of tokens just to operate a computer.

The move by Cloudflare will totally ruin the AI scraper and the AI agent hype.



I don’t see how CloudFlare is going to realistically block someone who is trying hard enough.

They’ll just get the agent to operate a browser with vision and it’s over. CAPTCHAs were already obsolete like 2-3 years ago.


they don't have to make it impossible, just expensive enough for it to not be worth it. using vision is a perfect example.


The funny thing is that a lot of people want the AI to scrape their public website. The same people that likely wrote all of their marketing content with ChatGPT.


Eh, if you control the browser or provide a good plugin you can just have users scrape for you




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