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If you want to get your personal IP and fingerprint blacklisted across major providers and large ranges, unfortunately this is how you do it. Just keep the rates low.

Obviously anyone scraping on their home IP is being foolish. Getting blacklisted is the least bad thing that can happen.

As for fingerprinting, you can just use a different computer. Most people probably have a bunch of old computers lying around, right? If not, computers are cheap.

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