cross-posted from: https://lemmy.zip/post/446751

Alternative title: Musk sues data scrapers, blames them for Twitter’s “impaired user experience”

    • tempest@lemmy.ca
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      1 year ago

      Yeah, people think this is like trying to stop drive by bots that are looking for PHP vulnerabilities, it isn’t.

      Usually you are attempting to stop someone who is spending their entire day trying to scrape your site. It’s a full time job trying to stop them and even then it’s a cat and mouse game at best.

      Still don’t think Elon is going to get anywhere with this though.

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      1 year ago

      Twitter can remove their servers from the public facing internet if they don’t want the traffic.

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        1 year ago

        Twitter very much does not want that to happen. Remember two weeks ago when Musk reversed his decision to block anyone but registered users from seeing tweets because Google started removing links to Twitter since they were dead?

        Right-wingers don’t just want to be bigoted assholes with megaphones, they want to make sure decent people have to hear them too.

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      1 year ago

      The same way any large web service would identify a sudden increase in traffic, whether malicious or not. For the servers I manage, we end up dealing with more unintentionally out-of-control bots than we do legitimate hack or DDoS attempts.