cross-posted from: https://lemmy.zip/post/446751
Alternative title: Musk sues data scrapers, blames them for Twitter’s “impaired user experience”
cross-posted from: https://lemmy.zip/post/446751
Alternative title: Musk sues data scrapers, blames them for Twitter’s “impaired user experience”
How exactly do you expect them to do that? It’s not inherently a trivial problem.
Yeah, people think this is like trying to stop drive by bots that are looking for PHP vulnerabilities, it isn’t.
Usually you are attempting to stop someone who is spending their entire day trying to scrape your site. It’s a full time job trying to stop them and even then it’s a cat and mouse game at best.
Still don’t think Elon is going to get anywhere with this though.
Twitter can remove their servers from the public facing internet if they don’t want the traffic.