@p @ins0mniak
>I was not going to open up port 445 and they were sending so many connection attempts that the majority of the bandwidth was those fuckers.
I had an angry moment over Chinese scrapers two weeks ago after I promptly nullrouted half of Huawei Cloud 2 weeks before that. They thought it would be great to switch to Alibaba US and hammer my Gitea instance with requests for every file in most repos and asking for every revision of those files. And in typical Chink when they didn't receive a response in time (obvious when you are sending ~15r/s to a small server), they just closed the connection and tried again in 30 minutes while still scraping other files.

And they have the audacity to use normal browser UAs from a randomized selection of a few making them very hard to block in an easy. Claude on the other hand completely ignores the meta tag and robots.txt, but at least they have "ClaudeBot" in the UA making them trivially blockable in nginx. That said, Claude is also retarded in a different way. They send requests for issues with numbers in the thousands and never stop when literally all of them return a 404.