[b]"Is Free Scraping Really Free? What Are the Hidden Costs?"[/b] or [b]"How Reliable Is Free Scraping for Data Co

The real cost? Your dignity.

Spent a weekend scraping only to get blocked by Cloudflare. Now I use ZenRows’ free tier—bypasses some JS stuff. Still, it’s a cat-and-mouse game.

Legal stuff? If it’s public, scrape it. If it’s behind a login, walk away.