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rglullistoday at 9:44 AM3 repliesview on HN

Anyone else got served a page with garbage content meant for AI scrapers?


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stingraycharlestoday at 10:18 AM

I got it as well, using a VPN.

perching_aixtoday at 9:52 AM

Oh, that's kinda fun. I got the same that I get for every Mastodon (and Anubis-protected) link: a page telling me that it won't work without JavaScript. I guess since AI scrapers these days do run some amount of JS, that is some second layer of defense?

At least for Twitter there are proxies that work without JS. For Mastodon, none that I'm aware of. I usually just audibly sigh and remark that they shall "keep their secrets then", and move on.

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userbinatortoday at 10:28 AM

To those who automatically assume humans with "weird" setups are "AI scrapers" (also a bit of a boogeyman these days): FUCK YOU. I'm a human, not a stupid mindless sheeple.

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