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This keeps generating new pages to keep the crawler occupied. Looks like this would tarpit any web crawler.

• BryantD 2y ago
  It would indeed. Note the warning: "There is not currently a way to differentiate between web crawlers that are indexing sites for search purposes, vs crawlers that are training AI models. ANY SITE THIS SOFTWARE IS APPLIED TO WILL LIKELY DISAPPEAR FROM ALL SEARCH RESULTS."
  • rvnx 2y ago
    It's actually a great idea to spread malware without leaving traces too, it makes content inspection to be very difficult, view-source: to be broken and most of debugging tools, saving to .har, etc.
    • bugtodiffer 2y ago
      how is view source broken
      • rvnx 2y ago
        It waits for the whole page to load
  • jsheard 2y ago
    Real search engines respect robots.txt so you could just tell them not to enter Markov Chain Hell.
    • throwaway744678 2y ago
      I suspect AI crawler would also (quickly learn to) respect it also?
      • deleted 2y ago
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      • jsheard 2y ago
        In that case, mission accomplished.
  • deleted 2y ago
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