purrtastic@lemmy.nztoTechnology@lemmy.world•TikTok’s parent launched a web scraper that’s gobbling up the world’s online data 25-times faster than OpenAIEnglish
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3 days agoIt’s not fine. They are not archiving the internet.
I had to ban their user agent after very aggressive scraping that would have taken down our servers. Fuck this shitty behaviour.
I don’t think it’s earned by Murdoch, but otherwise agree with the sentiment.