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Jonathan Corbet
corbet
As of the last count, @lwn has been hit by 1.6 million unique IP addresses since yesterday morning. We have managed to stabilize the site against that level of attack, but it is still annoying.
If only we could get them all to subscribe.
I do find myself wondering if there isn't material for a good class-action lawsuit here. We are far from the only ones having to cope with this crap. I'm not normally much of a fan of the US class-action lawsuit machine, but extracting money from the Bright Datas of the world to make some lawyers richer doesn't sound like an entirely bad proposition.
If only we could get them all to subscribe.
I do find myself wondering if there isn't material for a good class-action lawsuit here. We are far from the only ones having to cope with this crap. I'm not normally much of a fan of the US class-action lawsuit machine, but extracting money from the Bright Datas of the world to make some lawyers richer doesn't sound like an entirely bad proposition.
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Michael Cook
foobarsoft@mastodon.social@corbet They want to push their externalities on others. Returning a few seems like fair play. They’re destroying the web with their high speed strip mining.
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🇨🇦 Dianne S
dfs_comedy@mastodon.social
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Jonathan Corbet
corbet
@dfs_comedy @lwn Take a look at Bright Data's web site sometime. They advertise "automatically avoid anti-bot measures and CAPTCHAs", and "150M+ diverse IPs from real user devices". But be happy because those IPs are "100% ethically-sourced".
They aren't the only ones, and others are surely less overt about what their business is. But it would be a place to start.
They aren't the only ones, and others are surely less overt about what their business is. But it would be a place to start.
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@corbet Wow, they are pretty blatant about advertising a very scummy business model!
Unfortunately, the track record of people who've sued Bright Data in the past is not great.
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The Orange Theme
theorangetheme@en.osm.town
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Gaël Duval - /e/OS & Murena
gael@mastodon.social
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Jonathan Corbet
corbet
@gael @lwn https://lwn.net/Articles/1008897/ was written about a year ago, but still pretty much describes the situation.
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SpaceLifeForm
SpaceLifeForm@infosec.exchange
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