Luu Tuyen@lemmy.world to Technology@lemmy.worldEnglish · 1 day agoTikTok’s parent launched a web scraper that’s gobbling up the world’s online data 25-times faster than OpenAIfortune.comexternal-linkmessage-square88fedilinkarrow-up1467arrow-down16
arrow-up1461arrow-down1external-linkTikTok’s parent launched a web scraper that’s gobbling up the world’s online data 25-times faster than OpenAIfortune.comLuu Tuyen@lemmy.world to Technology@lemmy.worldEnglish · 1 day agomessage-square88fedilink
minus-squarepurrtastic@lemmy.nzlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up37·23 hours agoIt’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.
minus-squareMelvin_Ferd@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up4·22 hours agoIsn’t there a way to limit requests so that traffic isn’t bringing down your servers
minus-squareMojave@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up10·21 hours agoThey obfuscate their traffic by randomizing user agents, so it’s either add a global rate limit, or let them ass fuck you
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.
Isn’t there a way to limit requests so that traffic isn’t bringing down your servers
They obfuscate their traffic by randomizing user agents, so it’s either add a global rate limit, or let them ass fuck you