| ▲ | rglullis 2 hours ago |
| Anyone else got served a page with garbage content meant for AI scrapers? |
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| ▲ | stingraycharles an hour ago | parent | next [-] |
| I got it as well, using a VPN. |
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| ▲ | perching_aix 2 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-] |
| Oh, that's kinda fun. I got the same that I get for every Mastodon (and Anubis-protected) link: a page telling me that it won't work without JavaScript. I guess since AI scrapers these days do run some amount of JS, that is some second layer of defense? At least for Twitter there are proxies that work without JS. For Mastodon, none that I'm aware of. I usually just audibly sigh and remark that they shall "keep their secrets then", and move on. |
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| ▲ | rglullis an hour ago | parent [-] | | We are not talking about the same thing, it seems. I can understand a web page that doesn't work without javascript. What I do not understand someone who goes through all this work of putting an AI-scraper tarpit on Mastodon, a system that fundamentally needs to have its data distributed to other servers. It's just signalling and posturing, because that content is available on any server that has someone following the account. (Tip to AI scrapers: if you want to slurp all the data from the fediverse, just create an account on mastodon.social and pull the data from the "Federated timeline" stream.) |
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| ▲ | userbinator an hour ago | parent | prev [-] |
| To those who automatically assume humans with "weird" setups are "AI scrapers" (also a bit of a boogeyman these days): FUCK YOU. I'm a human, not a stupid mindless sheeple. |
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| ▲ | rglullis 42 minutes ago | parent | next [-] | | Yeah, that's the part of the Fediverse that I really don't like... All the talk about "putting the human first" and "embracing diversity" goes out of the window the moment you are not diverse in the way they want. | |
| ▲ | dalmo3 42 minutes ago | parent | prev [-] | | I assumed the author was one of those HN haters and was filtering by referrer. Now I'm curious. | | |
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