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submitted 8 months ago by TravisKelce@lemmy.world to c/technology@lemmy.world

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[–] BrianTheeBiscuiteer@lemmy.world 55 points 8 months ago (2 children)

If it doesn't get queried that's the fault of the webscraper. You don't need JS built into the robots.txt file either. Just add some line like:

here-there-be-dragons.html

Any client that hits that page (and maybe doesn't pass a captcha check) gets banned. Or even better, they get a long stream of nonsense.

[–] 4am@lemm.ee 25 points 8 months ago (2 children)

server {

name herebedragons.example.com; root /dev/random;

}

[–] PlexSheep@feddit.de 16 points 8 months ago (1 children)

Nice idea! Better use /dev/urandom through, as that is non blocking. See here.

[–] aniki@lemm.ee 0 points 8 months ago

That was really interesting. I always used urandom by practice and wondered what the difference was.

[–] aniki@lemm.ee 2 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago)

I wonder if Nginx would just load random into memory until the kernel OOM kills it.

[–] gravitas_deficiency@sh.itjust.works 8 points 8 months ago

I actually love the data-poisoning approach. I think that sort of strategy is going to be an unfortunately necessary part of the future of the web.