Thanks to a particularly annoying botnet, everyone's favorite anime cat girl firewall is now helping protect piefed.ca & lemmy.ca from bots and scrapers.

This is requests per second and these are all thousands of scrapers on residential IPs hammering us:

They'd increase their usage until the site started struggling, then move on. I banned their user agents, but have no interest in a cat & mouse game. Anubis should hopefully keep things running much smoother for everyone.

Let me know if you have any trouble!

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[–] 9 points 6 months ago (6 children)

Name and shame. What are the useragent strings? Can the companies be identified?

It won't affect me personally, because I already hate all AI companies. But maybe I could convince some people if I tell them what a specific company is doing.

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  • [–] 7 points 6 months ago (1 child)

    https://stormproxies.com/ et al are the kinds of site that offer this. Backend accessible rotating residential IP addresses, makes finding the source of the scourge almost impossible

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