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Lemmy newb here, not sure if this is right for this /c.

An article I found from someone who hosts their own website and micro-social network, and their experience with web-scraping robots who refuse to respect robots.txt, and how they deal with them.

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[–] [email protected] 3 points 3 days ago (2 children)

They block VPN exit nodes. Why bother hosting a web site if you don’t want anyone to read your content?

Fuck that noise. My privacy is more important to me than your blog.

It's a minimalist private blog that sets no 3rd party cookies and loads no 3rd party resources. I presume that alleviates your concerns? 😜

[–] [email protected] 6 points 3 days ago

That's not what I'm complaining about. I'm unable to access the site because they're blocking anyone coming through a VPN. I would need to lower my security and turn off my VPN to read their blog. That's my issue.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 3 days ago (1 children)

The admin could use a CDN and not worry about it, if it's just static content.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 days ago

I believe using a CDN would defeat the author's goal of not being reliant on third-party service providers.