New ask Hacker News story: Error 1006 – The owner of this website has banned your IP address

Error 1006 – The owner of this website has banned your IP address
2 by garyfirestorm | 0 comments on Hacker News.
I dont get it. I visited this site sometime back since it had an interesting article on webscrapping. Now I try to go back to it, I get this cloudfare error stating that my (home) IP has been banned. I did NOT perform any webscraping on that site or any other site (on the internet) for the matter of fact. I do perform webscraping on my company's intranet sites for genuine reason of pulling information and adding it to excel etc. my company runs legacy sites which are not exactly userfriendly and no one has ever complained to me in last 5-6 yrs of me pulling data internally for work purposes. I don't understand why I have been banned from visiting a website of a company thru my home IP edit - funny enough the site in question provides webscraping and data extraction API more edits - grammar and more clarification

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