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[–] [email protected] 82 points 1 day ago (2 children)

  1. Get a job working for Google making anti-adblockers.

  2. Use your 20% time contributing to FOSS stealth adblocker and anti-anti-adblockers.

  3. ???

  4. Profit for life

[–] [email protected] 4 points 10 hours ago

This was actually my life a few years ago.

I was hardening our applications to stop scraping and automation bots.

Then contributing to open-source to have better scraping and automation.

I wasn't purposely creating loop holes or anything because that's highly illegal. It's about making sure both sides "play nice", because the automation bots are frequently used by spammers/evildoers.