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   BlueDot🇺🇦 (bluedot@left-tusk.com)'s status on Thursday, 05-Jun-2025 22:52:19 JST BlueDot🇺🇦

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   @aral

   When I'm reporting something especially heinous, I'll make sure I archive it first at archive.ph. Then there can be no quibbling about whether we saw what we saw.

   @anarchic_teapot @dzwiedziu

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   pistolero (p@fsebugoutzone.org)'s status on Saturday, 31-May-2025 21:13:41 JST pistolero

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   @waifu @phnt @tyil
   
   > what if I block every user agent that isn't a browser?
   
   archive.is uses HeadlessChrome, pretends to be a browser by its UA, and uses an army of US residential proxies. Try to stop them.
   
   > I only want connections by users not bots
   
   You can't really worry too much about it. Plus you get weird fuckers like me and I pretty reliably (and completely by accident) snap the tripwires and get declared a bot, while actual bots just stroll right past.
   
   Basically, what you have to do is focus on actual problems: "This shit is flooding us, how do we stop the site falling over?" In some cases (not any instance on fedi), having them do some hashing can work. Authwalling works.
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   pistolero (p@fsebugoutzone.org)'s status on Saturday, 31-May-2025 21:02:16 JST pistolero

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   @phnt @waifu @tyil
   
   > putting your server behind CF and enabling all the protections.
   
   I don't think even that works. I forget who I saw do this but it was someone on fedi trying to scrape a Cloudflare site and all they did was add a loop that checked if the first character of the response was "<" and if so, the program would assume Cloudflare had stopped the req, sleep 100ms, retry.
   
   > not someone that has more than 40 IQ and is somewhat determined.
   
   Even archive.is uses HeadlessChrome and executes JS.
   
   In fact (moving pic related) it's sometimes easier to just scrape archive.is/archive.org/Google Cache/etc.
   
   > Basically the only way to keep your sanity is to don't care about it unless it starts giving your problems.
   
   Yeah: you can't keep control of information once it has left your computer. It's basically DRM.
   
   > Your fedi instance is probably already getting scraped in some way and you don't even know about it.
   
   waifuism stuff was in the Cloudlab scraped data.
   
   (It's funny, the guy--whoever he was--got shut down for ToS violations, right? But he had the MongoDB ports open to the world. So people that dumped his MongoDB data have the data that he paid to scrape, but he *doesn't* have that data.)
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   Adrianna Tan (skinnylatte@hachyderm.io)'s status on Thursday, 17-Apr-2025 04:56:36 JST Adrianna Tan

   @anarceus add archive.ph in front of the link

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   vertka (vertka@suya.place)'s status on Tuesday, 15-Apr-2025 21:23:25 JST vertka

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   @eric try archive.ph
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   Javier Paredes (javier_paredes@mastodon.social)'s status on Monday, 14-Apr-2025 05:57:10 JST Javier Paredes

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   @CorioPsicologia yo uso archive.ph