Someone shared an alternative. Must everything in AI threads be so negative and condescending?
Because if I own a website or a service and it is being degraded or slowed by some third party tool that wants to slurp its content for his own profit and don't even share, I tend to be irritated. And AI apologists/evangelists don't help when they try to justify the behavior.
It flashes some text briefly then gives me an 418 TEAPOT response. I wonder if it's because I'm on Linux?
EDIT: Begrudgingly checked Chrome, and it loads. I guess it doesn't like Firefox?
I found a flagged HN submission about it and it has just about the same result for me and for others. My first tap failed in a weird way (showed some text then redirected quickly to its git repo) and all subsequent taps trigger a download.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44538010
Given the replies here and in the older post, I suspect this tool is doing more harm to humans than to bots.
Friendly fire, I suppose.
I've had colocation for eight years+. My monthly b/w cost is now around 20-30Gb a month given to scrapers where I was only be using 1-2Gb a month, years prior.
I pay for premium bandwidth (it's a thing) and only get 2TB of usable data. Do I go offline or let it continue?
Yep, it sucks, but on the positive side, I'm feeding 500Mb of garbage into them every day and that feels like enough of a small win for me.
> My monthly b/w cost is now around 20-30Gb a month given to scrapers [...] 1-2Gb a month
That definitely sucks.
> Do I go offline or let it continue?
Might be time to start blocking entire IP ranges and ASNs and see if that helps.
If I hit it with Chrome, now I can see a site.
Seems pretty not ready for prime time as a lot of my viewers use Firefox
They even mention iocaine. I know, inconceivable!: https://iocaine.madhouse-project.org/
There's also tons of HN posts on the topic with varying solutions:
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45935729
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45711094