It'll make a Gemini summary of the page, and can be prompted for more details. It's really the only use for Gemini I've found reliable. I'd still rather directly view the output of the scraper bot, though.
If anyone knows a good scraping bot that lets you view the output directly, without running it through an LLM, please let me know.
Answers like yours kill the little remaining faith I have in people.
This same argument has been used to defend sloppily implemented CAPTCHAS destroying accessibility since what, 20 years.
There are many practical ways to handle that sort of thing that isn't Cloudflare. It just requires thinking and a bit of dev time.
t. Been there, done that, cartels used an app to try to launder money through loyalty programs. Management was deadset against doing the one single thing that would make it impossible to do that at scale.
Ulterior motives abound everywhere but especially behind people claiming X is the only answer. Fingerprinting is far more intrusive than just only allowing one to add at max 2 cards a day per user.
Sufficiently advanced stupidity being indistinguishable from malice is also something to keep in mind.
- stupidity
- stupidity and malice
Bots and scrapers and hackers also try and avoid being tracked, which is by far a bigger problem for them and most websites than the 15 of us using tons of antifingerprinting techniques. Evil? No, that's silly.