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A comment on Ask HN: How to stop an AWS bot sending 2B requests/month. Parent comment

Re:Ask HN: How to stop an AWS bot sending 2B requests/month by ruined on Saturday October 18, 2025 @05:56AM (#45626139)
nearly every http response is gzipped. unpacking automatically is a default feature of every http client.
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Re:Ask HN: How to stop an AWS bot sending 2B requests/month by sim7c00 on Sunday October 19, 2025 @08:06AM (#45633622)
Accept-Encoding i think would be logical on scrapers these days but maybe its not helpful idk. server should adhere to what client requests afaik.
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