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>where some amateur did real damage to us If an amateur can do damage to you, then I have some bad news for you...
by taytus 5y ago
>where some amateur did real damage to us
If an amateur can do damage to you, then I have some bad news for you...
- Goronmon 5y agoIf an amateur can do damage to you, then I have some bad news for you... I believe the point wasn't surprise that damage occurred at all, but frustration that damage can occur just out laziness/ignorance rather than malice.
- scarygliders 5y agoIndeed, that was precisely their point, and "bad news for you" is disingenuous as there are many techniques used by incompetent, or just downright unethical and greedy scraper companies which, no matter how robust the target is, can still give it a major headache. I've witnessed a site being basically DOS'ed due to particularly greedy and aggressive mass scraping attempts.
- ebbp 5y agoPrecisely this, thank you.
- convolutionart 5y agoThis is nonsense. It's always easier to destroy than to build/mantain. If you got any real advice, by all means...
- ebbp 5y agoTo be clear, they did “damage” was to our bottom line. Most sites don’t capacity plan for random cliff walls of 2-10x traffic (clearly we should!). We’re scalable enough to handle that traffic after a period, but a) it caused intermittent periods of low availability (costing us money because we didn’t generate income the way we normally do) and b) cost us money from scaling all our services up. It’s just selfish. If you’re going to take the product of other people’s work in a manner they don’t consent to, at least do it in a way that doesn’t cost them twice over.