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Re: I rebuilt my blog's cache. Bots are the audience now

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Post by tardedmeme » Mon, May 04, 2026, 5:31 PM UTC

Barbing wrote: post #55

tardedmeme wrote: post #51

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What's the IP address of the supposed iPhone? Does it come from T-Mobile or from xAI?

Residential I thought? It might’ve been even someone on here who posted about watching their server logs while they messaged Grok themselves. Curious if xAI has a phone farm. Maybe just running simulators on servers?

Residential proxies are a commodity at this point. You can also run your own network and try to get it misclassified as residential.

Re: I rebuilt my blog's cache. Bots are the audience now

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Post by tardedmeme » Mon, May 04, 2026, 5:31 PM UTC

gbgarbeb wrote: post #57

tardedmeme wrote: post #47

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You might as well serve different content to bots. Incorrect content.

Why not just redirect all requests to your website to the Reddit frontpage?

Redirects are easily detectable.

Re: I rebuilt my blog's cache. Bots are the audience now

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Post by robhoeijmakers » Mon, May 04, 2026, 6:52 PM UTC

Krasnol wrote: post #41

robhoeijmakers wrote: post #12

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Thanks. It seems to be very local/incidental. The page works from the locations I can test, but I’ll check whether one edge cache or request path served a bad response.

White page from one of Germany's largest ISPs.

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Re: I rebuilt my blog's cache. Bots are the audience now

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Post by gbgarbeb » Tue, May 05, 2026, 3:48 PM UTC

01284a7e wrote: post #60

gbgarbeb wrote: post #19

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This is like choosing to be an elementary school teacher and then quitting because it turns out your students for the year aren't your pets in perpetuity.

No, it's not at all. Bizarre analogy.

It's about control. Admit it.