Here you go. Daily stats from my defense system. All those disguised bots? ~60% of them are from Alibaba’s ASN.
It is easy to verify, too: throw up any https site, and all the crawlers will be on your neck within days.
There is a reason why Anubis’s botPolicies.yaml includes Alibaba. There’s a reason why a whole lot of sites - Codeberg included - blocks their entire ASN on the firewall.
It seems like I was wrong and they do need more data. But I think they have every right to go into their enemy’s imperialism tool and disrupt it however they see fit.
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Here you go. Daily stats from my defense system. All those disguised bots? ~60% of them are from Alibaba’s ASN.
It is easy to verify, too: throw up any https site, and all the crawlers will be on your neck within days.
There is a reason why Anubis’s botPolicies.yaml includes Alibaba. There’s a reason why a whole lot of sites - Codeberg included - blocks their entire ASN on the firewall.
You’re welcome.
It seems like I was wrong and they do need more data. But I think they have every right to go into their enemy’s imperialism tool and disrupt it however they see fit.