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Now even my personal instance is infested by these AI crawlers (potato-guy.space)

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It's impossible, i got this instance to just see lemmy from my own instance, but no, it was slow as hell the whole week, i got new pods, put postgres on a different pod, pictrs on another, etc.

But it was slow as hell. I didn't know what it was until a few hours before now. 500 GETs in a MINUTE by ClaudeBot and GPTBot, wth is this? why? I blocked the user agents, etc, using a blocking extension on NGINX and now it works.

WHY? So google can say that you should eat glass?

Life is now hell, if before at least someone could upload a website, now even that is painfull.

Sorry for the rant.

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[-] Mwa 12 points 20 hours ago* (last edited 20 hours ago)

You can either use Cloudflare(proprietary) or anubis (Foss)

[-] [email protected] 0 points 16 hours ago

Don't do this

[-] Mwa 6 points 16 hours ago

Why?

[-] [email protected] 3 points 12 hours ago

Because it harms marginalized folks' ability to access content while also letting evil corp (and their fascist government) view (and modify) all encrypted communication with your site and its users.

It's bad.

[-] [email protected] 1 points 8 hours ago

For clarity, you are referring to Cloudflare and not anaubis?

[-] [email protected] 1 points 7 hours ago

I am referring to cf, but I would expect anaubis would be the same if it provides DoS fronting

[-] [email protected] 1 points 2 hours ago

Anubis work in a very different way than cloudflare

[-] [email protected] 1 points 2 hours ago

How well does it work in tor browser in strict mode?

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