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[โ€“] scrubbles@poptalk.scrubbles.tech 6 points 5 days ago (1 children)

This is confirmed btw. I was just fired from a company who hired a new vp who worked in ad tech. Part of the gig was scraping. But how do they get around Ip blocks and so many guardrails?

Easy. They started a sister business that had an extension they gave away for free, some menial task like taking a screenshot or something to dupe people into getting it

And in the piles of ToS it gave the extension the legal ability to grab random websites, scrape them, and send the data home. Now you have a internet wide scraper platform, and best parts is that you can't be up blocked and even better, you aren't paying for compute.

These fuckers need to learn fear.