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Dear friends of the #BSDCafe and the #Fediverse,
Bytedance is connecting to our server every few seconds. As I don't understand why and, more, I've already had problems with their rude behaviour, I've added this rule to nginx.conf:

# case sensitive matching
if ($http_user_agent ~ (Bytespider)) {
return 444;
}

# case insensitive matching
if ($http_user_agent ~* (bytespider)) {
return 444;
}

They should be out, at least for now.

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