When faced with evidence of operating procedure for the malicious, we forever take them at their word when they insist they're just incompetent.
The spirit of this site is so dead. Where are the hackers? Scraping is the best anyone is coming up with?
It's not scraping. They'd notice themselves getting banned everywhere for abuse of this magnitude, which is counterproductive to scraping goals. Rather than rate-limit the queries to avoid that attention, they're going out of their way to (pay to?) route traffic through a residential botnet so they can sustain it. This is not by accident, nor a byproduct of sloppy code Claude shat out. Someone wants to operate with this degree of aggressiveness, and they do not want to be detected or stopped.
This setup is as close to real-time surveillance as can be. Someone really wants to know what is being published on target sites with as minimal a refresh rate as possible and zero interference. It's not a western governmental entity or they'd just tap it.
As for who...there's only one group on the planet so obsessed with monitoring and policing everything everyone else is doing.
The spirit of this site is so dead. Where are the hackers? Scraping is the best anyone is coming up with?
It's not scraping. They'd notice themselves getting banned everywhere for abuse of this magnitude, which is counterproductive to scraping goals. Rather than rate-limit the queries to avoid that attention, they're going out of their way to (pay to?) route traffic through a residential botnet so they can sustain it. This is not by accident, nor a byproduct of sloppy code Claude shat out. Someone wants to operate with this degree of aggressiveness, and they do not want to be detected or stopped.
This setup is as close to real-time surveillance as can be. Someone really wants to know what is being published on target sites with as minimal a refresh rate as possible and zero interference. It's not a western governmental entity or they'd just tap it.
As for who...there's only one group on the planet so obsessed with monitoring and policing everything everyone else is doing.