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It reminds me of someone I read about from the early web who defended their website against email address harvesting crawlers by adding a dynamic page that thre
by 13of40 3y ago
It reminds me of someone I read about from the early web who defended their website against email address harvesting crawlers by adding a dynamic page that threw up some random emails and links, where the links just led back to the dynamic page under a new path on the same host. The crawlers would get stuck downloading millions of fake email addresses until they eventually broke.
- InfamousRece 3y agoI used wpoison back then: https://www.gsp.com/support/virtual/web/cgi/lib/wpoison/ https://www.gsp.com/support/virtual/web/cgi/lib/wpoison/
- kxrm 3y agoGuilty, I did this on my first project site back in the early 00s. It only worked for a small time before scanners got more sophisticated. It was a fun diversion but people who do this quickly adapt.
- Log_out_ 3y agoWhat if the returned content is just chat gpt generated add hoc nonsense in the amount nonsense heuristics-1 ?