Doing God's work π
this post was submitted on 30 Jan 2025
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I do feel like active anti-scraping measures could go somewhat further, though - the obvious route in my eyes would be to try to actively feed complete garbage to scrapers instead - whether by sticking a bunch of garbage on webpages to mislead scrapers or by trying to prompt inject the shit out of the AIs themselves.
Me, predicting how anti-scraping efforts would evolve
(I have nothing more to add, I just find this whole development pretty vindicating)
Is it really a prediction when it's extremely obvious? Or especially when it was being done already when you make your prediction?
Like, if I predict you will blink in the next hour, is that really a prediction?
The kids are going through an Adventure Time phase, and so I am reminded of this:
Additionally, https://xeiaso.net/blog/2025/anubis/
Some of this stuff could be conceivably implemented as an easy-to-consume service. It would be nice if it were possible to fend off the scrapers without needing to be a sysadmin or, say, a cloudflare customer.
(Whilst I could be either of those things, unless someone is paying me I would very much rather not)
A WP plugin would be handy.