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Zhejiang police busted a piracy ring that used self-taught crawlers to steal over 400,000 original short stories and sold access via online card keys. The operation netted over 2 million RMB, leading to 7 arrests across provinces. Leader Mao was sentenced to 3 years suspended, fined 480k RMB, and compensated victims 730k RMB.
User shares high-speed local setup using Qwen3.5:27B-Q3_K_M on RTX 4090 for web scraping and research at 40 tk/s with 200k context. Employs llama.cpp Web UI with MCP tools including webmcp for parallel URL fetching, HTML cleaning, and markdown conversion. Code snippet details async Playwright browser, DDGS search, and readability extraction.
BBC article shows generative AI like ChatGPT echoing new niche blog posts as 'hacks'. TNW argues this narrative oversimplifies AI's real-time web integration. It challenges views portraying AI as trivially manipulable.
SerpApi is countering Google's December copyright lawsuit accusing it of mass-scraping search results using deceptive methods. In a motion to dismiss, SerpApi claims Google holds no copyright on its search results, which are built on others' web content. SerpApi alleges Google itself extensively scrapes the web.
Amazon’s anti-scraping defenses have reportedly misclassified legitimate shoppers as AI crawlers. Affected users can see only eight reviews per product, lose sorting and filtering tools, and may need to wait up to five business days after submitting an appeal.
This article clarifies that 'incognito' modes primarily clear local browsing history rather than providing true anonymity. It highlights the distinction between local privacy features and modern anti-tracking technologies used to combat advertiser data collection.