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There are certain classes of websites where the proposed solutions aren’t a great fit. For example, a shopping site hiding their catalog behind paywalls or authentication would raise barriers to entry such that a lot of genuine customers would be lost. I don’t think the business model is in general to be blamed here and it’s ok to acknowledge the unfortunate overhead and costs added by site usage patterns (e.g. scraping) that are counter to the expectation.



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