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Re:You don’t want to be on Cloudflare’s naughty list by synthetigram on Tuesday September 20, 2022 @04:39PM (#32917483)
Reputation systems should be based on /abuse/, not on automation. I also ended up on the naughty list for running an archival scraping program. Trying to preserve part of the Internet is apparently against the rules. It's really a shame because my code honors rate limits, doesn't spam, and is completely docile.
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Re:You don’t want to be on Cloudflare’s naughty list by d2wa on Thursday September 22, 2022 @06:08AM (#32936862)
> Trying to preserve part of the Internet is apparently against the rules.

It’s against copyright laws too, unless you get the right holders’ go-ahead first.

Some regional differences, but it’s mostly not allowed with a few exceptions for some institutions.

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