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   jwz (jwz@mastodon.social)'s status on Saturday, 06-Jun-2026 06:36:03 JST jwz

   It has become more frequent for someone to contact me saying "I can't access your sites from my phone / cable modem", and on the few occasions when they tell me what their IP is, it turns out that, yup, that IP did some extremely obvious AI scraper bullshit and got shitcanned for a month.

   I have no way of knowing how often collateral damage like this happens, since by definition they aren't connecting to my site afterward. But anecdotally, telcos and cable companies...
   https://jwz.org/b/yk8O

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     jwz (jwz@mastodon.social)'s status on Wednesday, 10-Jun-2026 15:04:38 JST jwz

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     180 http req/sec. A *single botnet* has hit 1,052,380 distinct honeypot URLs in the last 24 hours. Source IPs from all over the globe.