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My entire subnet just got permanently IP banned because of LangChain web scraper

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5 May
spend 2 months building a scraper. a single site redesign broke everything in 4 minutes. [D]

<!-- SC_OFF --><div class="md"><p>not exaggerating. 2 months of work. custom proxy rotator, playwright instances, regex hell to strip HTML into something my vector DB wouldn't

OPINION · WHAT · MachineLearningOPEN STORY
4 Oct
Anyone else getting hit with “cyber abuse” bans for normal coding? Paid $100/mo, appeal denied in 60 seconds

<!-- SC_OFF --><div class="md"><p>Curious how common this is, because I'm seeing a lot of similar stories.</p> <p>I got banned today for &quot;cyber abuse.&quot; I'm an indie dev

OPINION · WHEN · ChatGPTOPEN STORY
24 Mar
I built a web scraper in Rust that bypasses Cloudflare without a browser

<p>Every AI agent has the same problem. You ask it to read a webpage and it comes back with a 403, or worse, 5000 tokens of navigation bars and cookie banners.</p> <p>I spent the

REPORT · HOW · Dev.toOPEN STORY
15 May
Permanently banned by OpenAI for "Cyber Abuse" I didn’t commit. No blocked prompts, no in app banners, just 4 silent emails to my spam folder.

<!-- SC_OFF --><div class="md"><p>I’ve been a $20/month Plus subscriber for over two years, using ChatGPT daily for work and dev projects. Last week, my account was deactivated

OPINION · HOW · ChatGPTOPEN STORY
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