Hi everyone, Maybe this topic has already been dis...
# đź’»creators-and-apify
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Hi everyone, Maybe this topic has already been discussed before, but I couldn’t find any threads about it. In short, why doesn’t Apify introduce some kind of protection against price dumping for actors? I’ve been in business for a long time, and even though Apify is more of a hobby for me, I’ve been wondering why Apify doesn’t protect its creators from price dumping. It’s sad to see new creators launching the exact same actors, and in many cases even using copied (or stolen) output/input schemas. I mean the schemas, variable names, variable order, and so on are often basically copied through LLMs; and then they just keep lowering the price more and more. Do the people responsible for bussines development at Apify understand that these actors are not bringing in new users? In practice, the same number of results is being scraped by the same users.. let’s say there used to be one actor at $10/results, and at the end of the month you got a 20% commission from $1,000. Now, when there are actors at $1/results, you will get 20% but from $200. This is just a simplified example, but I think the point is clear. On the other hand, many older creators built their actors years ago, and now new creators simply launch the same kinds of actors and keep setting the price lower and lower. It’s sad to watch. So again, why doesn’t Apify use any protection against price dumping, even though this is implemented in many other places?