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binarymax on June 28, 2021 | parent | context | favorite | on: The 'Fuck You' Pattern

IMDB is doing this now too. Infuriating.

stevenwoo on June 28, 2021 [–]

I scrape imdb for some personal web pages and imdb has the weirdest things now to prevent scraping like custom media viewers and obscuring most of plain text inside deep, almost indistinguishable hierarchies.

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