tl;dr: Proposed federal and New York bills targeting "stealth" web crawlers would require bots to disclose their identity and purpose, with penalties for anonymous scraping that could "burden" websites. The authors argue this approach misses the mark: unmasking crawlers doesn't reduce server load or compensate publishers, while it would chill legitimate anonymous scraping used by journalists, researchers, archivists (like the Internet Archive), and accessibility advocates. They suggest policymakers instead support technical standards for managing bot traffic and tie liability to actual harmful conduct rather than anonymity itself.