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Thanks to a particularly annoying botnet, everyone's favorite anime cat girl firewall is now helping protect piefed.ca & lemmy.ca from bots and scrapers.

This is requests per second and these are all thousands of scrapers on residential IPs hammering us:

They'd increase their usage until the site started struggling, then move on. I banned their user agents, but have no interest in a cat & mouse game. Anubis should hopefully keep things running much smoother for everyone.

Let me know if you have any trouble!

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[โ€“] egerlach@lemmy.ca 16 points 1 week ago (1 children)

F the bots. Would like to be able to have nice things. Happy that at least this is the ๐Ÿ‡จ๐Ÿ‡ฆ-made solution (at least the primary dev, anyways).

Does Fedecan have the budget to throw a couple of bucks a month to Xe? Completely understand if not, I've done not-for-profit corps before and I know what it's like. But if the budget is there, spending it on a Canadian dev would be a nice choice, IMO.

[โ€“] Shadow@lemmy.ca 9 points 6 days ago

Oh I didn't realize they were Canadian, we'll discuss!