It's been quite a while since I last did web-scraping (I used to use BeautifulSoup, more than a decade ago).

I'm just wondering, since a lot of people are using fairly advanced cloud-hosting solutions with, I assume, tools offered by their respective hosting place to fight spam, is web-scraping a lot different from what it used to be about a decade ago? What steps do you guys take to prevent being identified as a bad actor by the place that you are scraping?

And on the other end, if you have a data-rich website, what are your feelings toward aggressive scrapers?