[OldLearner]

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Possible solution for sites?

Have the table position change every minute. Move it left/right/up/down a few pixels.

The most recent Party upgrade caused all the software that uses screen-scraping quite a bit of grief.


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That wouldn't stop anything except really piss off the humans. The upgrade had nothing to do with moving tables.


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Moving the area that the screen scrapers "expect" to find what they are scraping for effectively disables them, does it not? (I may be just naive about this).

Moving the cards/text on the screen a few pixels or subtle resizing will not "piss-off" the humans. They probably wouldn't even notice. And if it is noticeable, knowing that it is to combat bots would make it acceptable to me.