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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.
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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.