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Also, what would be the point? It's easier to download a data dump from https://archive.org/details/stackexchange https://archive.org/details/stackexchange
by jks 5y ago
Also, what would be the point? It's easier to download a data dump from https://archive.org/details/stackexchange https://archive.org/details/stackexchange
- zalebz 5y agoI wasn't aware that existed and obviously that would make any scraping utterly useless
- raverbashing 5y agoYou would be surprised/disappointed at the amount of abuse the bigger sites have to handle Things like this https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26072025 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26072025
- capableweb 5y agoInteresting, but doesn't fit the context of Stack Exchange blocking Tor. Your example there is regarding a mobile app hotlinking a image of a flower, which seems easy enough to block/fix, while Stack Exchange blocking all Tor users from even reading Stack Overflow doesn't make so much sense.
- rovr138 5y ago1 image abused enough, they dig, find the culprit being an app. Fixes, updating the app, blocking the image, blocking all requests with empty user agents. ------ 1 person abused enough SO, they dig, find the culprit being someone using Tor network. Fixes, identify the user and ask them to stop, block all traffic from Tor. ------- Do you propose an alternative fix?