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This is fine. I support archiving the Internet.
It kinda drives me crazy how normalized anti-scraping rhetoric is. There is nothing wrong with (rate limited) scraping
The only bots we need to worry about are the ones that POST, not the ones that GET
It’s not fine. They are not archiving the internet.
I had to ban their user agent after very aggressive scraping that would have taken down our servers. Fuck this shitty behaviour.
Isn't there a way to limit requests so that traffic isn't bringing down your servers
They obfuscate their traffic by randomizing user agents, so it's either add a global rate limit, or let them ass fuck you