> You will not stop scrapers.
That's no reason to go down without a fight!
> Second argument against these "protections" is, there are people behind bots
That doesn't hold much water in the context of hosting a blog.
> That's no reason to go down without a fight!
I suppose, if you assign no value to your time and don't care at all about any collateral damage.
Otherwise, assuming it's true, it sure is a damned good reason to go down without a fight.
> if you assign no value to your time
We're talking about a personal blog; this sort of fun is what they're made of.
You will not stop scrapers. Period. They will just pay for a service like firecrawl that will fix it for them. Here in Poland one of the most notorious sites implementing anti-bot tech is our domestic eBay competitor allegro.pl. I've been locked out of that site for "clicking too fast" more than once. They have the strictest, most inconvenient software possible (everyone uses the site). And yet firecrawl has no problem scraping them (although rather slowly).
Second argument against these "protections" is, there are people behind bots. Many bot requests are driven by a human asking "find me cheapest rtx5060 ti 16gb" today. If your site blocks it they will loose that sale.