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It's a constant cat and mouse atm. Every week or so, we get another flood of scraping bots, which force us to triangulate which fucking DC IP range we need to start blocking now. If they ever start using residential proxies, we're fucked.
at least OpenAI and probably others do currently use commercial residential proxying services, though reputedly only if you make it obvious you’re blocking their scrapers, presumably as an attempt on their end to limit operating costs
Oh never heard of that. I have blocked their scrapers via agents but I haven't felt residential proxy pain.
here’s a mastodon post and linked blog post with some details on what currently sets it off
PS: Looks like that sync issue between our instances is resolved now?
yep, it seems so! I haven’t put the permanent fix for the nodeinfo bug into place yet but it’ll be live as soon as I’m able to give it an appropriate level of testing.
Daym, I should set me up some iocane as well I think