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Re: How to Block Some of the Bots

#33

Post by fatty_patty89 »

Bender wrote: post #32
fatty_patty89 wrote: post #30

what's up with those response headers? "adult" ... "ai" ... response length 68

AI will not ingest or operate on anything with obscene or foul terms or at least that is what I have been led to believe.

weird misdirection excuse

edit:

>"I can not see votes or karma and do not require social validation. "

>proceeds to downvote

classic

Re: How to Block Some of the Bots

#34

Post by Bender »

fatty_patty89 wrote: post #33
Bender wrote: post #32

Earlier quoted context omitted.

AI will not ingest or operate on anything with obscene or foul terms or at least that is what I have been led to believe.

weird misdirection excuse edit: >"I can not see votes or karma and do not require social validation. " >proceeds to downvote classic

I did not and could not downvote you as you replied to me. Only others can. I have not downvoted any comments on this thread. I appreciate all feedback.

Re: How to Block Some of the Bots

#35

Post by boznz »

I expect >99% of my web traffic is bots or agents and I was actually considering removing the page counter as it is pretty meaningless and makes my site look far busier than it is. I am reluctant to however do anything about it just in case it accidentally stops a genuine human reading it or downloading my books.

Re: How to Block Some of the Bots

#36

Post by Bender »

FabCH wrote: post #25

The post content is great. I personally hate the way Cloudfare has been the „default answer“ for the bot problem because Cloudfare has become the most successful MITM attack in history. We need content like this to keep the internet alive. The added explanations by the author in this comment thread are hilarious. You sir are a good writer.

Thankyou for the kind words. I am not for everyone which is the way I would like to keep it. I agree there need to be more alternatives to a big centralized MitM caching proxy even if they can be a bit rough around the edges like mine. There is always room for improvement if enough of us try to come up with alternatives and options.

Re: How to Block Some of the Bots

#37

Post by userbinator »

You are only helping the entrenched browser monopoly and furthering the dystopia if you attempt to block anything but "approved" user-agents. This is what people like RMS were warning us about decades ago.

Block on traffic volume and request frequency if that's causing a problem.

(And yes, I can't access the site either. No, I will not conform. But I bet anyone determined enough will still get through, just like with DRM.)

Re: How to Block Some of the Bots

#38

Post by Bender »

userbinator wrote: post #37

You are only helping the entrenched browser monopoly and furthering the dystopia if you attempt to block anything but "approved" user-agents. This is what people like RMS were warning us about decades ago. Block on traffic volume and request frequency if that's causing a problem. (And yes, I can't access the site either. No, I will not conform. But I bet anyone determined enough will still get through, just like with…

I can accept that. I've sat with RMS a few times. He's an interesting and very smart person. There are things he and I agree and disagree on. I'm sure I would never hear the end of it on this one. I'm glad he put the cancer into remission and will have many many more years.

On the topic of browsing with any kind of browser, I would be extra careful using things people have vibe coded or more specifically have not been battle hardened to protect against malicious sites. The reader apps people use I think would be especially at risk of malicious servers if they have not gone through extensive third party code reviews by penetration testers.

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