Poisoning scraperbots with iocaine
iocaine, a MIT-licensed nonsense generator, is designed to make scraped text less useful by poisoning it with fake data. The hope is to make running scraperbots not economically viable, and thereby address the problem at its root instead of playing an eternal game of Whac-A-Mole.
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Am I the only one who thinks the demo page reads like spoken word poetry?
The title of the page found in the first link: "Breast rose and fell inexorably. Seven times round. Then the sheep -face melted into."
I guess the porn bots will remain unaffected