erin_irl
@owo.me
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* they/she * fedi @erin@coolmathgam.es * professional dork * piss verified * hello on the sky app 💖🥺 views here are of my own…
* they/she * fedi @erin@coolmathgam.es * professional dork * piss verified * hello on the sky app 💖🥺 views here are of my own…
![Chad third party scraper meme
- holding literal scrapers in both hands
- follows no rules, doesn't agree to any terms of service
- [Luminati logo - Proxy vendor company]
- scrapes so fast the backend crashes
- POP3
- Selenium logo
- curl logo
- beautifulsoup logo
- requests logo
- has no limitations can access any data he wants
- entire industries are dedicated to stopping him
- website thinks his user agent is a phone
- Doesn't care about changes in policies
- promising career at high-frequency trading firm (just scrapes in his spare time)
- Even Javascript can't stop him
- pays laborers to solve captchas
- doesn't even have a phone number
- can work anonymously
- parses HTML with regex
- [Mullvad logo - VPN company]
- [SMSPVA logo - SMS API company]
- [2captcha - Captcha API company]
- his business is profitable
- Can do whatever he wants
- millions of engineer hours, still can't stop him from scraping](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:oesgqutnvkjnm7ogca6aw67f/bafkreibumvmbwalx6nkgfeodgeyus7j727spkespygrxrrxmob65m77xwq)
