My personal website that primarily functions as a front end to my home server has been getting BEAT by these stupid web scrapers. Every couple of days the server is unusable because some web scraper demanded every single possible page and crashed the damn thing
Out of the 60gb/month of traffic my website gets, 20gb is because of bytedance’s webscraper. I haven’t gotten around to blocking them as bandwidth isn’t an issue but damn do they send a lot of requests.
Also it doesn’t respect
robots.txt(the file that tells bots whether or not a given page can be accessed) unlike most AI scrapping bots.My personal website that primarily functions as a front end to my home server has been getting BEAT by these stupid web scrapers. Every couple of days the server is unusable because some web scraper demanded every single possible page and crashed the damn thing
I do the same thing, and I’ve noticed my modem has been absolutely bricked probably 3-4 times this month. I wonder if this is why.
Thankfully they haven’t bricked my modem yet, but it’s possibly worth looking into
My god… It’s true. TikTok does access the home wifi network! https://youtu.be/OSQ76ZrHmd4
/s
Obviously
Funnily enough, the bot everyone identified as tik tok hasn’t hit me as far as I’m aware. It’s mostly been random LLM bots grabbing data to train.
I doubt that…
People would be able to tell from the traffic on their websites.
Out of the 60gb/month of traffic my website gets, 20gb is because of bytedance’s webscraper. I haven’t gotten around to blocking them as bandwidth isn’t an issue but damn do they send a lot of requests.