Comment on No wonder Reddit has turned to shit
TheBat@lemmy.world 15 hours agoA never-ending maze would mean the scrapers just hammer our servers forever.
Is that how tarpitting works? I didn’t know.
Comment on No wonder Reddit has turned to shit
TheBat@lemmy.world 15 hours agoA never-ending maze would mean the scrapers just hammer our servers forever.
Is that how tarpitting works? I didn’t know.
rimu@piefed.social 14 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.