• jagged_circle@feddit.nl
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    1 month ago

    This is fine. I support archiving the Internet.

    It kinda drives me crazy how normalized anti-scraping rhetoric is. There is nothing wrong with (rate limited) scraping

    The only bots we need to worry about are the ones that POST, not the ones that GET

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      1 month ago

      It’s not fine. They are not archiving the internet.

      I had to ban their user agent after very aggressive scraping that would have taken down our servers. Fuck this shitty behaviour.

    • WhyJiffie@sh.itjust.works
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      1 month ago

      this is neither archiving, nor ratelimited, if the AI training purpose and the 25 times faster scraping than a large company did not make it obvious