Luu Tuyen@lemmy.world to Technology@lemmy.worldEnglish · 3 days agoTikTok’s parent launched a web scraper that’s gobbling up the world’s online data 25-times faster than OpenAIfortune.comexternal-linkmessage-square128fedilinkarrow-up1548arrow-down17
arrow-up1541arrow-down1external-linkTikTok’s parent launched a web scraper that’s gobbling up the world’s online data 25-times faster than OpenAIfortune.comLuu Tuyen@lemmy.world to Technology@lemmy.worldEnglish · 3 days agomessage-square128fedilink
minus-squareSparky@lemmy.blahaj.zonelinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1·2 days agoOut of the 60gb/month of traffic my website gets, 20gb is because of bytedance’s webscraper. I haven’t gotten around to blocking them as bandwidth isn’t an issue but damn do they send a lot of requests.
Out of the 60gb/month of traffic my website gets, 20gb is because of bytedance’s webscraper. I haven’t gotten around to blocking them as bandwidth isn’t an issue but damn do they send a lot of requests.