If you can bring a text-based site down with an L7 attack it was kinda crap to begin with.
unixhero 8 hours ago [-]
OSI layer 7? Do we call Internet based attacks that now?
edg5000 13 hours ago [-]
They're not yet gone based on the message. They just have to adjust their hardening. The title is a bit dramatic.
account42 9 hours ago [-]
Or optimize the website. A knowledge base that isn't being actively updated shouldn't need to hit PHP to serve unauthenticated requests.
It doesn't excuse the scrapers but a lot of websites are just needlessly wasteful.
edg5000 4 hours ago [-]
From what I hear it's misconfigured bots that can cause issues. This could happen for dynamic content, where the bot thinks there are a lot of unique pages and it just keeps scraping with slightly different query params for example, sometimes not rate limited nor limited to pages/day/IP. That's my read from the various posts I've read from web admins.
20 hours ago [-]
hulitu 13 hours ago [-]
The FAANG really want to get rid of the old internet.
Who controls the past, controls the future.
At least since February: https://web.archive.org/web/20260211083755/https://www.dosti...
It doesn't excuse the scrapers but a lot of websites are just needlessly wasteful.