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My favorite thing to do was to detect a bot and then show the bot a parallel dataset I'd developed of bogus information. Instead of hitting a block and working
by wittyusername 7y ago
My favorite thing to do was to detect a bot and then show the bot a parallel dataset I'd developed of bogus information. Instead of hitting a block and working its way around it, competitors scraped a bunch of slightly warbled nonsense data. Have fun with that gang! Also made it super duper easy to see who'd try to steal our data.
- ianandrich 7y agoI really like this approach to handling bots.
- madamelic 7y agoThat's really, really funny. I would absolutely love to see that as someone who scrapes sites. It would make me smile immensely to see the trolling.
- cdoxsey 7y agoAlso known as a honeypot: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Honeypot_(computing) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Honeypot_(computing).
- Can_Not 7y agoActually, better terminology would be Honeytoken, Trap Street, and/or Fictitious Entry. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Honeytoken https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Honeytoken https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fictitious_entry https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fictitious_entry https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trap_street https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trap_street
- folkhack 7y agoAs someone on the other side of the game: this is incredibly effective and can be near-impossible for me to figure out you're feeding me BS data. I have also done this as an anti-botting tactic myself though and it can get pretty complicated to setup properly unless you're doing the low-tech "feed these networks BS data" list.