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Making requests in bad faith is also an attack on communication itself.
by hinkley 2y ago
Making requests in bad faith is also an attack on communication itself.
- immibis 2y agoNo? Not when the requests are served by a machine with the capacity to answer a hundred times more requests than are actually made. The only bad faith request for information is the one that wasted the answerer's time, which isn't usually happening here. It happens sometimes, but we're also trying to block the times that doesn't happen. Why?
- rk06 2y agorequests are not served by just machine, there is also a huge network of wires spread across the globe for transmission. and getting bandwidth on that is pricey when AI crawler spams you
- immibis 2y agoWhen any crawler spams you, but most bots do not spam you. They retrieve something at some reasonable rate. Btw cloudflare considers any browser other than the last few versions of Firefox, Safari and Chrome to be a bot. Such as Pale Moon. It blew up on Hacker News when CF demanded the PM devs to sign an insane NDA to get unblocked.