Meh, there's always going to be a longtail of targeted abuse so it's not much to boast over. Xrumer software in 2001 could even let you sit at your computer and fill out those common PHP-lib captchas (like on EZBoard) while Xrumer spammed internet forums and blogs. You could even hire a cubicle farm of humans to manually abuse a web service.
Captchas filter out the 90% bulk of automated abuse.
Btw, web scraping is on the nearly harmless side of abuse.
That makes sense that there's longtail abuse, thanks. What would you say is more harmful abuse? Spamming endpoints for SQL and other injection attacks?
Captchas filter out the 90% bulk of automated abuse.
Btw, web scraping is on the nearly harmless side of abuse.