Ban me at the IP level if you don't like me

FAFO from both sides. Not defending this bot at all. That said, the shenanigans some rogue or clueless webmasters are up to blocking legitimate and non intrusive or load causing M2M trafic is driving some projects into the arms of 'scrape services' that use far less considerate nor ethical means to get to the data you pay them for.

IP blocking is useless if your sources are hundreds of thousands of people worldwide just playing a "free" game on their phone that once in a while on wifi fetches some webpages in the background for the game publisher's scraping as a service side revenue deal.

What? Are you trying to say it's legitimate to want to scrape websites that are actively blocking you because you think you are "not intrusive"? And that this justifies paying for bad actors to do it for you?

I can't believe the entitlement.