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mitxelayesterday at 11:15 PM1 replyview on HN

Scrapers scrape all sorts of nonsense, notably every possible git diff from git hosts. They clearly aren't concerned with rationality.


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XorNotyesterday at 11:58 PM

Scrapers scrape every link they can find.

The git host example is probably the one which Anubis is the dumbest defense for: the main reason to have those links is for easy machine interaction. So that's dead when you implement it.

So why even host the links? It's a git repo: send them a local got client and let them clone the repo in browser or something.

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