tanteJan 5

RE: https://tldr.nettime.org/@tante/115838050969984568

Since there was some interest: Here's what I did last year to Exit the billionaire castles:
https://tante.cc/2026/01/05/exiting-the-billionaire-castle/

Show threadJez 🍞🌹Jan 6
@tante FYI I just tried to add this to my self-hosted readeck instance to read later but it looks like it fell into your AI tarpit instead.  I don't blame you for deploying such measures, AI once again making things worse for everyone...
Show threadtante
@petrichor what user agent does your service use to crawl?
Jan 6 at 7:39amWeb
Show threadJez 🍞🌹Jan 6
@tante Had to dig around in the source code a bit but looks like it's this https://codeberg.org/readeck/readeck/src/commit/ddf1affb2e925edc51d6ac5aac0d04e60e9da7ba/internal/httpclient/client.go#L33
Cookie monster!

Show threadtanteJan 6
@petrichor Hmm. That one is a bit problematic cause it has no actually identifying strings, it's a fake user agent.
Show threadJez 🍞🌹Jan 7
@tante Looks like there's a mechanism to customise it for specific sites so I might have a poke around to see how that works.