Comment on How to combat large amounts of Ai scrapers

savvywolf@pawb.social ⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

• DrunkAnRoot@sh.itjust.works ⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  i tried Anubis and it works great the only issue is it wont support multiple subdomains

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• RedBauble@sh.itjust.works ⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  Second Anubis, just finished by setup yesterday i have it of a oracle cloud frre tier vps, which depending on the domain routes the traffic to services hosted on the vps itself or to my server ar home. Relatively easy to setup, blocks most requests with very few false positives (one of which for example it would aggressively challenge by thunderbird trying to reach my baikal instance). I set a bit more aggresive rules than default (i also block googlebot and bingbot, since i received a bit more requests than I’d like). In like 10 hours it straight up denied about 5000 requests from the ai-catchall ruleset (mostly amazonbot) and challenged about 10000, mostly from a block of IPs in singapore, some of the hosts having the user agent of a Macintosh with PowerPC. They all sure love to explore the public repos on my git server.

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  • VeganCheesecake@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    You probably don’t need me to tell you, but keep good backups. Friend of mine recently had his account nuked without any reason given, and without the possibility of recourse.

    a mail from Oracle, informing about the immediate termination of service, and deletion of all data

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    • WhyJiffie@sh.itjust.works ⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      as I heard that’s pretty common at oracle, but it’s good to spread the word

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    • RedBauble@sh.itjust.works ⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      That’s too bad. Luckily i keep just a couple of docker compose stacks there. But I should starr backing them up

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• Typewar@infosec.pub ⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  I have a dumb question… what is preventing the crawlers from just eating the shit and just burn though the energy to get through?

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  • savvywolf@pawb.social ⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    It’ll still slow them down and reduce load on your server. I also think many of these crawlers focus on volume; time spent computing the hash is time not spent crawling someone else’s site.

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• FundMECFSResearch@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  I’ve had trouble with it using a vpn and privacy browsers. It often blocks me until I use a default browser.

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• Courantdair@jlai.lu ⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  I was going to recommend that, very easy to setup

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