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I do know from my experience with test automation that you can absolutely view a site as human eyes would, essentially ignoring all non-visible elements, and in fact Selenium running with Chrome driver does exactly this. Wouldn’t AI scrapers use similar methods?


Probably not, because it costs a lot more CPU cycles.




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