this post was submitted on 07 Jul 2025
568 points (98.1% liked)

Open Source

38814 readers
111 users here now

All about open source! Feel free to ask questions, and share news, and interesting stuff!

Useful Links

Rules

Related Communities

Community icon from opensource.org, but we are not affiliated with them.

founded 5 years ago
MODERATORS
you are viewing a single comment's thread
view the rest of the comments
[โ€“] medem@lemmy.wtf 21 points 4 days ago (7 children)

What advantage does this software provide over simply banning bots via robots.txt?

the scrapers ignore robots.txt. It doesn't really ban them - it just asks them not to access things, but they are programmed by assholes.

load more comments (6 replies)