holstvoogd

I have no love for apple and their crap. I'm just tired of the endless stream of this bullshit fake outrage by the worst perpetrators.

Fakespot is literal cancer that steals passwords, location data, purchase history etc etc.

Should never been in the app store to begin with!

I call bullshit. I suspect selection bias

It took me 5 minutes to figure out what eproctoring is

Lets hope so... I expect that these were accidentally committed to a public repo

However, while the keys are then already leaked, you'd have to go search for them. Copilot suggests you use them in you editor. That is not quite the same imo.

It goes from deliberately searching and using leaked keys to having them handed to you without context. I feel it is a bit like finding an unlocked bike, if you take it, it is still stealing. But here there is a guy at the bike parking lets say that is handing out bikes to anyone passing by. Not the best analogy, but i think it covers my point ;)

If you wait for that, all diabetics will be dead probably…

As someone who has to deal with a lot of bots, bot networks and other weird scraper apps people use: The biggest issue is that most of these tools are not behaved very well. This tool is clearly designed to circumvent protections, rate limits mostly, against scraping that might be essential to keep things running.

They follow links that are explicitly marked as do not follow, they do not even try to limit their rate, they spoof their user agent strings etc etc. These bots cause real problems and cost real money. I do not think that kind of misuse is ethical. In fact, using this tool to circumvent protections can turn your scraping into a DDOS attack, which I do not feel are ethical.

If your bot behaves itself though, public information is public imo. Just don't take down websites, respect rate limits and do not follow 'no-follow' links.

To give an idea of the size of the issue, we have websites for customers that have maybe 5 hits per minute from actual users. Then _suddenly_ you go to 500 hits/minute for a couple of hours, because some bot is trying to scrape a calendar and is now looking for events in 1850 or whatever. (Not the greatest software that these links are still there tbh, but that is out of my control.)

Or another situation, not entirely related, but interesting i think: A few years back for days on end 80% of our total traffic came from random IPs across china & request could be traced through HTTP referrers where the 'user' had apparently opened a page in one province, then traveled to the other side of China and clicked a link 2 hours later.

All these things are relatively easy to mitigate, but that doesn't make it ethical.

If your scraper behaves, perhaps it would not be blocked…

About as useful a take as ‘dont click on phishing links’

This, I am not at all reassured by this that it won't happen again. Next week perhaps.

Also, their DNS broke last month as well, but I guess we won't mention that as it would invalidate 2 years of stellar reliability

It was not that quick tbh. We were seeing intermittent issues for several hours after the initial problem arose.

It tought me a valuable lesson: make sure it is easy to switch to another CDN & to update cached/stored urls

Always ironic how many trackers are blocked when reading such articles

This. Unit Test should not connect to external service imo.

And I do not get the gripe with a production rate limit tbh.

I have the same experience. I bought a System76 darter pro, it comes with a linux pre-installed. I've been using it on and of for a year now but cannot 'give up' my mac: - It is not stable at all; weekly complete freezes - The key-bindings are a joke. Even after remapping and hacking stuff - bluetooth support sucks, sometimes it works for days, then it will not reconnect and keep spewing errors. - Sound drivers seems buggy, it takes 20-30s to 'switch' to a BT speaker. - I cannot for the life of me figure out how to install Ruby 'correctly' via apt.