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PatronView's owner details a year of fighting scrapers: 214:1 bot-to-human page loads, 35,000 Claude crawls per referred user, and Amazon's bot referred none (Nick Gray/PatronView)

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PatronView's owner, Nick Gray, detailed a year-long battle against web scrapers on his 1.5 million-page website. He reported a staggering 214:1 bot-to-human page load ratio and observed 35,000 Claude crawls per referred user, while Amazon's bot referred none. Gray shared his experiences, including attempts, failures, and current successful strategies in combating these automated accesses.

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