I use iocaine[0] to generate a tarpit. Yesterday it served ~278k "pages" consisting of ~500MB of gibberish (and that's despite banning most AI scrapers in robots.txt.)

[0] https://iocaine.madhouse-project.org

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chao- 3 hours ago | parent | next [-]

Can't seem to access this.

It flashes some text briefly then gives me an 418 TEAPOT response. I wonder if it's because I'm on Linux?

EDIT: Begrudgingly checked Chrome, and it loads. I guess it doesn't like Firefox?

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dpkirchner 2 hours ago | parent | next [-]

Nor Safari on iOS.

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zephen 3 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

Doesn't work on my firefox either.

Friendly fire, I suppose.

	▲	godelski 2 hours ago \| parent [-]
		Works on my Firefox. Mac and Linux

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doublerabbit 3 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

Unfortunately and you kind of have to count this as the cost of the Internet. You've wasted 500Mb of bandwidth.

I've had colocation for eight years+. My monthly b/w cost is now around 20-30Gb a month given to scrapers where I was only be using 1-2Gb a month, years prior.

I pay for premium bandwidth (it's a thing) and only get 2TB of usable data. Do I go offline or let it continue?