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The tool actually comes in three different forms: a Disqus-like Javascript library, a Chrome Extension, and the proxy server the article mentions. In that conte
by mshenfield 11y ago
The tool actually comes in three different forms: a Disqus-like Javascript library, a Chrome Extension, and the proxy server the article mentions. In that context, the proxy server sounds much less like "We're sticking your content in our site" than a clever way to imitate the Chrome Extension with a service.
- look_lookatme 11y agoThey seem to be running the service on Digital Ocean. At least one of their proxies are located at 107.170.156.120 and uses a most-useless user agent of "Go 1.1 package http"
- epeus 11y agoif you go via the genius.it prefix it proxies via AWS and doesn't set a useragent, so it is tricky to block. It also doesn't respect robots.txt So I made a little bit of js to redirect back to the origin site for people who don't want that view: https://github.com/kevinmarks/savant https://github.com/kevinmarks/savant This won't block the browser plugin, but it will hopefully deter some of the drive-by scribbling.