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Using lots of little tools to aggressively reject the bots

403: You are not authorized to access this material Or using lots of little tools to aggressively reject the bots · October 18th, 2024 U G H. For some reason my quaint little piece of the internet has suddenly been inundated with unwanted guests.

With the brain slug that is "AI" now openly encouraging the mass consumption of data from the internet at large to train their models on, it was really only a matter of time before the scraping became more severe. To get a clear understanding of what I mean, lets take a quick look at the full dashboard from when I redid my Zabbix server after it failed earlier this year. Since this influx of traffic was denying my own access to the services I host (specifically my Gitea instance) I figured the easiest and most effective solution was just to slam the door in everyone's face.

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