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Facebook's fuckup is not to have some sort of anti-scraping system running. If they'd limited the number of public-facing profile views to 100 a day per IP add
by AlexMuir 16y ago
Facebook's fuckup is not to have some sort of anti-scraping system running. If they'd limited the number of public-facing profile views to 100 a day per IP address then this would have taken 41,666 days for one IP address (obviously you'd use more, but it illustrates the point).
- qq66 16y agoAnd many college students would be blocked from Facebook... even if you increased the number to 1000 :)
- AlexMuir 16y agoFb could up the limit for an ip based on the number of users logging in from that location. Plus I'm only thinking the public facing non-friend profile views.
- uxp 16y agoIt wouldn't solve the entire problem, but resolving the IP address to its assigned DNS name could also help. Anything coming from .edu could be exempt, but 100 full hits an hour from *-dhcp.mylocalisp.com could be flagged for abuse.
- necubi 16y agoDo many colleges use NAT? Every college whose network I've been on gives external IPs to each network device.
- simoncion 16y agoThe University of Alabama in Huntsville uses NAT for the folks who use its wireless network, or the network in the dorms; everyone on those networks gets a 10/8 address. Additionally, UAH is connected to I2, but doesn't provide any IPV6 connectivity for those who use its I1 connection. :/