I want to prevent or hamper the parsing of the classifieds website that I'm improving.
The website uses API with JSON responses. As a solution, I want to add useless data between my data as programmers will probably parse by ID. And not give a clue about it in neither JSON response body nor header; so they won't be able to distinguish it without close inspection.
To prevent users from seeing it, I won't give that "useless data" to my users if they don't request it explicitly by ID. From an SEO perspective, I know that Google won't parse the page with useless data if there isn't any internal or external link.
How reliable would that technic be? And what problems/disadvantages/drawbacks do you think can occur in terms of user experience or SEO? Any ideas or suggestions will be very much appreciated.
P.S. I'm also limiting big request counts made in a short time. But it doesn't help. That's why I'm thinking of this technic.
I think banning parsers won't be better because they can change IP and etc. Maybe I can get a better solution by requiring a login to access more than 50 item details for example (and that will work for Selenium, maybe?). Registering will make it harder. Even they do it, I can see these users and slow their response times and etc.
