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Might I suggest a spin on this: instead of blocking the IPs, consider serving up different content to those IPs. You could make a page that shames their domain
by bvinc 4y ago
Might I suggest a spin on this: instead of blocking the IPs, consider serving up different content to those IPs.
You could make a page that shames their domain name for stealing content. You could make a redirect page that redirects people to your website. Or you could make a page with absolutely disgusting content. I think it would discourage them from playing the cat and mouse game with you and fixing it by getting new IPs.
- nomel 4y ago> Or you could make a page with absolutely disgusting content. Not if you value the people who might move to the real domain.
- Mikealcl 4y agoYou could do this without effecting normal traffic depending on uniqueness of ip doing the scraping. Love the idea.
- swsieber 4y agoI think you missed the point - if people show up at $PROXY expect nice stuff but see junk, then they won't move over to $REAL and instead blame $REAL. E.g. you'd like some way to redirect people from $PROXY site to $REAL site, and disgusting content on $PROXY won't do that - it'll reflect poorly on $REAL
- hedora 4y agoOne possibility: Serve different content, but only if the user agent is a search engine scraper. Wait a bit to poison their search rankings, then block them.
- zhengyi13 4y ago... be careful with this. Assuming you've monetized your content with ads, depending on your ads provider, this may have deleterious effects on your account with that provider, as they may then assume you're trying to game ads revenue.
- chipsa 4y agoThe mirror is almost certainly running their own ads, given they strip the JavaScript out.
- sprior 4y ago"Or you could make a page with absolutely disgusting content." You've never heard of Rule 34, have you...
- walrus01 4y agoobviously somebody too young to have seen the method of using an http redirect to the goatse hello.jpg for unwanted requests edit: or when somebody embed-links your image inside some forum, replace the original filename with the contents of hello.jpg
- beirut_bootleg 4y agoI've tried this with zip bombs, but I can't tell how well it worked out.
- NicoJuicy 4y agoDid the same things for spam bots :p
- RektBoy 4y agoWait what? Care to follow on this hypothetical topic please?
- michaelcampbell 4y agozip bombs are files that when unzipped expand to enormous sizes. I'm not sure if OP put one to be downloaded for the offender to kill their disk space, or if you could stream one hoping the client browser/scraper would attempt to decompress and crash for memory or disk outages? That's my read on it anyway.
- antifa 4y agoIf those IPs are VPN services, you might be negatively affecting all VPN users in addition to the proxy.