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How do 3taps do it? Some comments say they "use Google cache", which doesn't explain much:

- Google is notorious for fighting bots pretty aggressively, how do 3taps avoid this?

- even if 3taps found a special access to Google cache, it would be trivial for CL to prevent Google or anyone else from caching its listings, thus cutting off the rest of the food chain that feeds on caches; why don't they do it?

Is it possible that 3taps use another method, such as "manually" copy-pasting listings with Mechanical Turk?



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