I use Zip Bombs to Protect my Server
I use Zip Bombs to Protect my Server
The majority of the traffic on the web is from bots. For the most part, these bots are used to discover new content. These are RSS Feed readers, search engines crawling your content, or nowadays AI bo

The one-liner:
dd if=/dev/zero bs=1G count=10 | gzip -c > 10GB.gz
This is brilliant.
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Sadly about the only thing that reliably helps against malicious crawlers is Anubis
72 0 ReplyThat URL is telling me "Invalid response". Am I a bot?
28 0 ReplyI’m sorry you had to find out this way.
89 0 ReplyNow you know why your mom spent so much time with the Amiga
9 0 Replyhttps://anubis.techaro.lol/docs/user/known-broken-extensions
If you have JShelter installed, it breaks the proof of work from anubis
7 0 Reply4 0 ReplyYou're using a VPN, right?
2 0 ReplyNope. Just using Vivaldi on my Android device.
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I don't really like this approach, not just because I was flagged as a bot, but because I don't really like captchas. I swear I'm not a bot guys!
3 0 ReplyThat’s the reason I say ‚sadly‘. It’s definitely not good. But since everything else fails, this is what currently remains.
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