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Someone from your university tried to scrape data from Google. I know it's still not justified, but it's the easy solution that works for preventing DOS attack
by fooker 1y ago
Someone from your university tried to scrape data from Google.
I know it's still not justified, but it's the easy solution that works for preventing DOS attacks.
- max51 1y ago>Someone from your university tried to scrape data from Google. Kinda wild that someone scraping google's data would prevent me from getting into my PAID (>90$/yr) Dropbox account. That experience is a big part of why I pay extra to host my host data on my own server now.
- fooker 1y agoYep, that's how the internet works now unfortunately. Decentralization, hosting your own stuff, is great until you run into DDOS attacks and have to make maintaining your server a full time job. Sure you have the skills (or can acquire it), but do you have the time ?