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I built a system called caltrops that did almost exactly that. As a given session's requests grew more and more suspicious, their data would skew from reality further and further. A real user on the line would notice immediately (and the more real-looking the user interactions, the more it would reduce suspicion), but competitors scraping our data would get pretty deliciously bunk data.


to deal with similar problems, kickstarter built a pretty useful tool called rack-attack https://github.com/kickstarter/rack-attack


This is a most excellent idea!

Btw, did you actually return incorrect price data, or did you just insert random bytes, etc.?




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