It occurs to me that even if we can't *prevent* LLM companies from scraping by blocking their IP ranges, doing so en masse will certainly make it very *expensive* for them to continue scraping, because residential proxies are not cheap
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("Residential proxies" are the thing that they use to come at you from home user IP addresses when you block their servers, to try and evade your block and become undetectable)
@joepie91 AI scraping via botnet feels like an any day kinda thing now