There are services that detect residential IPs being used for scraping nowadays. Plus there are other ways of detecting scraping: browser fingerprinting, aggressive rate-limiting and CAPTCHAs etc.
Captcha solving services are a thing, can be as crude as something that takes a screenshot, sends an image to a click farm worker getting paid $300 a month sitting in a cubicle in Bangladesh.
There's various captcha solving services where you pay in bulk per captcha and submit data via an api.
Yup, such click farms exist. But driving up the costs and/or technical implementation efforts for bots/scrapers can be a part of your anti-bot strategy.
It's always just a question of detecting these things and code them in.
It's like writing a game bot with Java robots and pixel detection. It may is inefficient, may takes longer to make than a network solution. But I have yet to be detected anywhere
