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How we blocked TikTok's Bytespider bot and cut our bandwidth by 80%


Note: This is a pretty technical blog post so feel free to ignore if you're only here to  buy original comic art on Nerd Crawler. If you want to learn about some code t...

Note: This is a pretty technical blog post so feel free to ignore if you're only here to buy original comic art on Nerd Crawler. Put it simply, we're building a better eBay for comic artists like Frank Cho, Sabine Rich, Khoi Pham, and many more! If you’re building a web app and noticing bandwidth cost rising, take a look and see if Bytespider is hitting your site.

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