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    1. To be clear 'putting a piece of data into a search field and scraping the HTML of the first result' is not a process that's sophisticated, complex or difficult. It *is* a technique that is impossible to block no matter what Facebook says it is doing theatlantic.com/amp/article/557285/?__twitter_impression=true
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    Nor is the technique of deploying thousands of bots under different IP addresses to do so particularly difficult or complex, there are open source tools and code for it. Also, the nature of these bots makes them impossible to entirely block.
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      I mean, lol, we all remember en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Openbook_(website) right? And that didn't even need an army of bots.
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