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		tzahola on April 22, 2018 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: How to scrape anything on the web and not get caug... Won’t work. Adversaries can taint your data by sending back fake results.

amelius on April 22, 2018 [–]

Could multiple downloads and a "consensus" algorithm solve this problem?

tzahola on April 22, 2018 | [–]

Kinda, but it’s far from trivial as you would need some sort of tolerance when comparing sites with dynamic content.

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