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   Jonathan Corbet (corbet@social.kernel.org)'s status on Monday, 31-Mar-2025 01:11:38 JST Jonathan Corbet
   Today I got a cheery email from somebody who claims to be the "ethics and compliance" officer for a company called Bright Data. He wanted to have a "no pressure" conversation about the whole AI scraperbot problem. Looking at their web site, this company offers an API that, and I quote, "Bypasses anti-scraping mechanisms and solves CAPTCHAs, ensuring uninterrupted access to the most protected web sites".
   
   After careful consideration for several milliseconds, I have concluded that I really don't have anything to discuss with this person.
   
   But at least their claimed "100M+" of residential IP addresses that they use for their DDOS attacks are "ethically sourced".
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     bluca (bluca@fosstodon.org)'s status on Thursday, 03-Apr-2025 05:46:12 JST bluca

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     @corbet let them call you, over the phone so they get billed, but connect them to an AI chatbot to get them busy (and billed) for as long as possible

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