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> malicious actors and abuse It's hard to consider simply viewing content to be malicious or abusive, no matter how automated.
by deogeo 7y ago
> malicious actors and abuse
It's hard to consider simply viewing content to be malicious or abusive, no matter how automated.
- tomc1985 7y agoI used to work for a data-scraping firm and very often we would accidentally knock many web sites offline when we pointed our crawlers at them. I'd love to agree with you, but the crawler problem is 100x worse today than it was a decade ago
- deogeo 7y agoThis would be much better solved with IP-based rate limits. And if IP-based doesn't work, then you're dealing with a DDOS, and it doesn't sound like this case was DDOS protection.