How I Fingerprint My Own API to Catch Scrapers
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TL;DR: Once you've stripped fingerprints from your data sources (Part 7), flip the script. Add your own watermarks so you can trace leaks back to specific customers. Coordinate jitter, price bucket skew, phantom records, and invisible text markers. All deterministic, all traceable, all invisible to users. In Part 7, I discussed how to remove inbound fingerprints from your API responses. This includes things such as coordinates, addresses, pricing, etc. This was defense. This is offense. No