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Comment by reactordev

I’m in love with the theme switcher. This is how a personal blog should be. Great content. Fun site to be on.

My issue is that crawlers aren’t respecting robots.txt, they are capable of operating captchas, human verification check boxes, and can extract all your content and information as a tree in a matter of minutes.

Throttling doesn’t help when you have to load a bunch of assets with your page. IP range blocking doesn’t work because they’re lambdas essentially. Their user-agent info looks like someone on Chrome trying to browse your site.

We can’t even render everything to a canvas to stop it.

The only remaining tactic is verification through authorization. Sad.

parent reactordev 1 year ago

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