UI automation is necessary for accessibility [LWN.net]

UI automation is necessary for accessibility

Posted Jul 13, 2026 22:04 UTC (Mon) by quotemstr (subscriber, #45331)
In reply to: UI automation is necessary for accessibility by Cyberax
Parent article: An update on the scraper situation

> There probably needs to be a daily limit.

How do you determine the principal? A daily limit *for who*?

> E.g. a million pages

A million pager per, what, person? How is individual personhood established? What prevents a scraping outfit identifying as a small town's worth of people? The whole concept of rate-limiting per-person per-day sounds easy at first but is fiendishly hard if you think about it and care about privacy.

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UI automation is necessary for accessibility

Posted Jul 14, 2026 15:35 UTC (Tue) by Cyberax (✭ supporter ✭, #52523) [Link]

> How do you determine the principal? A daily limit *for who*?

A subscriber. Feel free to create multiple ones, you just have to pay (for example) $10 a month for each one.

> What prevents a scraping outfit identifying as a small town's worth of people?

Nothing. And that's the goal. No Kafkaesque attestations, no complicated surveillance state. Each time you request a page, the page's operator gets credited (with obvious sanity checks).

Want to scrape my Git by following all the links recursively? Be my guest. You'll just have to pay for it.