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@GossiTheDog Well, they can be forced to if not face #accountability, at least take #consequences.

  1. Violating #telco laws got @BNetzA to knock on their door.

  2. #DropKiwifarms worked as a unified effort

  3. Customers yeeting #ClownFlare did force them to yeet #KiwiFarms.

  4. #Cloudflare has been a #RogueISP for over a decade now as they accept gross violations of their own #ToS and host #Daesh propaganda sites...

  5. Pretty shure #Brazil will hold CloudFlare contempt and force them to either fire #Twitter as client or get #blocked as well...

  6. CloudFlare will then yeet #Shitter because #ApartheidEmeralBoy is known to bounce checks and refusing to pay on time, so he doesn't even make this something worth risking.

  7. Cloudflare is and will always remain a shitty hoster - period!

  8. I still block #Cloudflare's entire #ASN as a security measure since they shield #cybercriminals.

  9. Their entire #ValueRemoving business is just a form of #racketeering that should not only not exist, but be illegal to begin with.

  10. Every half-decent #hoster offers #DDoS protevtion these days eithout ClownFlare.

  11. ClownFlare doesn't even prevent DDoS attacks, but lets #ByteSpider DDoS their customers!

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@xogium this issue of excessive crawlers is sadly nothing new. @MattKC / #MattKC experienced the same with #ByteSpider, the #Scraper used by #TikTok which results basically in his site getting #DDoS'd despite #ClownFlare being tasked to prevent it!

youtu.be/Hi5sd3WEh0c

Personally, I've run out of patience and tolerance for such actions by #GAFAMs and #TechBros and I'm so close to just blocklist their entire ASN as a matter of principle!

  • It's just that I'd likely have to make an entire dedicaded blocklist and toolup some script to pull a BGP feed or rather IP assignments data for their entire ASN and submit these in #git as branch updates, merge that and block said network in it's entirely as I did with the DoD networks.
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We recently noticed a fair bit of traffic on www.bbc.co.uk & www.bbc.com from a User Agent which identifies itself as "ByteSpider" (& has a @bytedance.com email address).

Lots of docs on the web state it doesn't obey robots.txt but ByteDance have told us it *does*:

> *...in the robots.txt files*
*> user-agent:Bytespider*
*> Disallow:/*

Thought that might be worth documenting as it might be a recent change & several of us searched but found zero docs from ByteDance