Using lots of little tools to aggressively reject the bots

403: You are not authorized to access this material Or using lots of little tools to aggressively reject the bots · October 18th, 2024 U G H. For some reason my quaint little piece of the internet has suddenly been inundated with unwanted guests. Now normally speaking I would be over joyed with having more guests to this tiny part of the internet. Come inside the cozy little server room, we have podcasts to drown out the noise of the fans, and plenty to read. Probably at some point in the future there will be photography things too, and certainly plenty of company. But no, nobody can have such nice things. Instead the door to the server room was kicked down and in came a horde of robots hell bent on scraping every bit of data they possibly could from the site. Now, for the longest time, I've had no real issue with this. Archive.org is welcome to swing by any time, index the entire site, and stash it away for posterity. Keep up the good work folks! But instead of respectful netizens ... Read full article.