Tell HN: Stack Exchange (Stack Overflow) is now blocking Tor

Re:Tell HN: Stack Exchange (Stack Overflow) is now blocking Tor by southerntofu on Tuesday February 08, 2022 @06:39AM (#30257279)

The problem is with Google not with StackOverflow letting people read their stuff. A search engine which does not prioritize pages with advertisements and broken Google-powered translations (yes the french version of those SO/GH sites are hilarious) will filter that crap out.

I mean anyone who'd like to crawl/scrap a website can do it from home, with the help of friends, or by renting "resential VPN" services for a few bucks a month. Blocking Tor does not prevent scrapping.

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Re:Tell HN: Stack Exchange (Stack Overflow) is now blocking Tor by chaoz_ on Tuesday February 08, 2022 @09:51AM (#30259030)

You will be shocked how many paraphrasing enthusiasts will not finish their implementations, if the first steps require additional expertise / investment.

Google should definitely resolve this problem on their side, but language models got huge and complex. It's hard to tell (especially with their scale) if a website if composed from paraphrased content of 20 other websites.

I'm kinda shocked how successful those "doorway pages" are at reaching the top and how long they live there.

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