Originally Posted by
golfmad
It is quite difficult for the likes of UA to deny access permanently to screen scrapers.
Aside from any technical difficulty of blocking KVS, denying customers who are using their own login credentials and KVS as an access method is effectively stating that COdbaUA will only serve certain types of browsers but not others, even though no concession is required on the CO end to allow access. Although this is certainly within their "rights" it would be (yet another) amazingly open, in-your-face customer unfriendly gesture.