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

submitted 1 week ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 week ago (6 children)

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

[–] [email protected] 10 points 1 week ago (4 children)

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

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

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

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 week 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.

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