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		loloquwowndueo on Oct 6, 2024 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: ByteDance is abusing the free video downloading se... If bytedance are so big and rich why don’t they implement their own scraping solution instead of abusing a small service like cobalt.

sangnoir on Oct 6, 2024 [–]

...Because someone scraping from a Bytedance IP range is not necessarily Bytedance, just like requests from an AWS IP do not imply Amazon authored the spider

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