"The tech giant is sidestepping guardrails that websites use to prevent being scraped, data show, in a move whistleblowers say is unethical and potentially illegal."
ARTICLE:https://www.dropsitenews.com/p/meta-facebook-tech-copyright-privacy-whistleblower
FULL PDF:https://www.dropsitenews.com/api/v1/file/b3555944-e204-4f5e-9a64-e44281b19a82.pdf
@FediPact I did apply this nginx config to fight against it and many other IA bots and scrappers:
https://github.com/kurren/ai-bots-crawlers
returning 444 to them seems a good way to confuse them and decrease server load.
This is a critical point. An instance or website can defend itself in numerous different ways, including actively adversarial strategies, and still succumb to extraction - if they're using Cloudflare
cc: @subMedia
OK, wait, Cloudflare has a setting you can activate where they will block known scrapers. I have it turned on for my personal sites. How do those two things square?
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