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The serious costs and widespread performance issues and outages caused by reckless scrapers has been on everyone’s mind in the sysadmin community as of late, and has been the subject of much discussion online. Many of their arguments reduce to victim blaming – that it’s not that hard to handle this volume of traffic, that we should be optimized to better deal with it, that we need more caching or to improve our performance, or that we should pay a racketeer like CloudFlare to make the problem go away. This assumption has varied roots, as benign as misplaced Libertarian ideals and as unhinged as the Rationalism cult belief that AGI is around the corner and everyone ought to be participating as best they can for the benefit of untold numbers of unborn future-humans.

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