Comment on No wonder Reddit has turned to shit

• davidgro@lemmy.world ⁨16⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  What about a maze that adds a few hundred ms to the response time with each request, so the load gets less the longer it’s trapped?

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  • rimu@piefed.social ⁨16⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    I haven’t tried to make something like that. I think it’d be hard to do that without also exhausting our resources too.

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    • davidgro@lemmy.world ⁨16⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      Ah, that makes sense

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• TheBat@lemmy.world ⁨16⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  A never-ending maze would mean the scrapers just hammer our servers forever.

  Is that how tarpitting works? I didn’t know.

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  • rimu@piefed.social ⁨16⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    There are a lot of strategies. afaik a tar pit tries to waste the attacker’s resources by delaying our responses to their traffic? A honey pot tries to funnel bot traffic towards a place which only bots would go to. Once they go there you know they’re a bot and they can be banned.

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• Deceptichum@quokk.au ⁨16⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  Sadly that only works for scrapers, content engaging bots are immune to it.

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• pimento64@sopuli.xyz ⁨12⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  So just find scrapers IRL and burn down their houses, easy

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