Comment by iforgotpassword

Comment by iforgotpassword 10 months ago

I use one. I run a bot on IRC that extracts the <title> of every link posted (or downloads the image/whatever and extracts Metadata) and announces that to the channel. It has become more and more pointless to run this on a vps. Google/YouTube block the IP range, a lot of websites return the cloudflare security check, Amazon works on some days and doesn't on others... Ever since I proxy via residential proxies it just works. I'm a smooth criminal. :>

morkalork 10 months ago

So much for the open internet.

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nolist_policy 10 months ago

You can thank the spammers.

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- Nextgrid 10 months ago
  
  I’m not sure how much of this is due to spammers and how much is due to “growth & engagement” that wants to make sure a human’s time is being wasted.
  
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- wruza 10 months ago
  
  To stop spammers, you implement measures before posting, not before viewing. Spam is just a minor technical nuisance. It's automated interaction that really makes their executives sweat and shiver.
  
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- stevenicr 10 months ago
  
  and hackers..
  install a fresh wordpress and you'll be blocking hundreds of Digital Ocean Ip addys within 24 hours..
  Or you won't.
  If you add a failed login detector you'll see DO, OVH Hetzer and similar are non-stop password guessing your logins everyday.
  Maybe your admin password is so long they will never get in, maybe you don't care that your server gets slower responses for actual users as it serves pages and does DB lookups for all the bots trying to use a different password every minute.
  Maybe the website owner doesn't know any of these and the open internet is actually legoland where everything is awesome all the time.
  
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derekzhouzhen 10 months ago

I feel your pain, but I refuse to cave. Say, 10% of the links fail to load, so what? It is their loss, not mine.

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