Almost 29 million requests from AI crawlers defeated by essentially one simple check: if the user agent contains Chrome/ or Firefox/, and doesn't have sec-fetch-mode, it's going into the maze.

Billions of dollars poured into AI, yet, their crawlers are broken by two ifs in an nginx config.

If this all wasn't so sad, I'd laugh.

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#iocaine has been up for 4days 15h 5m 28s, and spent 1day 6h 26m 31s dealing with - *gestures hands wildly* - [everything](https://monitor.madhouse-project.o…

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@algernon I just hope you aren't popular enough that they see this and fix it
@aburka Heh. Well. If they do, I have about a dozen other ways to catch them, half of them similarly cheap.