@i @judgedread @mint Anyone that is annoyed the API is locked down can direct their complaints to @CrunkLord420 . I'd like to personally thank him for making shit that even a monkey can use to cause problems, and then giving it to monkeys that are predisposed to cause problems, and then shrugging. (PROTIP: hard-code some minimum rate-limits so that anyone that is too fucking stupid to run a compiler is not going to do any damage, and stop making "regular-ass browser UA string" the default in the example config.)

I saw the guy's "Oh, I was crawling really slowly!" post in that thread, and I'll just dump the logs. Bots that are pretending to be browsers are kill-on-sight anywhere with a competent sysadmin.

No more traffic arrives here from M247 ever again: it's been scrapers and pedophiles and dipshits. It would have gone the same way Mullvad and NordVPN went a long time ago, but two instances were using it to federate; one of them stopped and the other one's dead.

I run this shit so I can use it and I leave it open so other people can use it. If some series of scrapers wants to DDoS it, then I can't use it, so why the fuck am I paying the goddamn bill?
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