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Ai scraping is an effective DDoS on the entire interent (pod.geraspora.de)

submitted 3 weeks ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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[–] [email protected] 6 points 3 weeks ago (2 children)

Oh never heard of that. I have blocked their scrapers via agents but I haven't felt residential proxy pain.

[–] [email protected] 15 points 3 weeks ago

@db0 @self Residential Proxy Pain are playing at the Dublin Castle in Camden this Friday, £4 advance, £5 on the door

[–] [email protected] 10 points 3 weeks ago (3 children)

here’s a mastodon post and linked blog post with some details on what currently sets it off

[–] [email protected] 8 points 3 weeks ago

Daym, I should set me up some iocane as well I think

[–] [email protected] 5 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

PS: Looks like that sync issue between our instances is resolved now?

[–] [email protected] 2 points 3 weeks ago

yep, it seems so! I haven’t put the permanent fix for the nodeinfo bug into place yet but it’ll be live as soon as I’m able to give it an appropriate level of testing.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 weeks ago

Infinite-garbage-maze does seem more appealing than "proof-of-work" (the crypto parentage is yuckish enough ^^) as a countermeasure, though I would understand if some would not feel confortable with direct sabotage—say for example a UN organization.