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PINTEREST: publish your public outgoing IPs so we can whitelist you and block the rest of amazon ec2 It is the responsible thing to do, otherwise other website

by ck2 11y ago

PINTEREST: publish your public outgoing IPs so we can whitelist you and block the rest of amazon ec2 It is the responsible thing to do, otherwise other website bots can spoof you.

detaro 11y ago
What's the problem with other bots appearing as pinterest?
- boomzilla 11y ago
  Simple economics: they get some value from having their content on Pinterest. There is no value (that they could see) from having their content scraped by other bots.
  - detaro 11y ago
    If that's the only reason then I hope pinterest doesn't publish their IPs.
  - mappu 11y ago
    That's terrible for whoever the next big Pinterest is.
windowsworkstoo 11y ago
Agreed, or implement RDNS verification like the major search engines do.
joshenders 11y ago
Hi there, Pinterest traffic engineer here. I've added a task to take care of this. Thanks for the suggestion!
- ck2 11y ago
  I'm embarrassed I didn't say "please". But thank you!