mrweasel 19 hours ago

No, no they really aren't, but I was thinking the "scraping industry" in the sense that that's a thing. Getting hosting in smaller datacenters is simple enough, but you may need to manage your own hardware, or VMs. Many will help you get your own IP ranges and ASN, that's going to go a long way, if you don't want to get bundled in with the bad bots.

This differs obviously, but having an ASN in our case means that we can deal you, contact you and assume that you're better than random bot number 817.

  • tonymet 17 hours ago

    Scraping isn’t an industry. There are legitimate and illegitimate scraping pursuits.

    There are lots of healthy / productive businesses in the cloud and lots of scumbags, just like any enterprise.

    I still have no idea about your point, by the way.