🔗 https://stephvee.ca/blog/updates/the-scraping-problem-is-worse-than-i-thought/

The extreme amount of unethical #scraping that's occurring all over the web right now *definitely* won't be solved by limiting nice features for good-faith visitors; for that reason, I've reinstated my full-text RSS feed. Apologies for truncating it in the first place -- that was dumb of me. More about that in my latest blog post.

#indieweb #scrapers #fuckai

@st3phvee Thank you for bringing back the full-text RSS! ♥️
@st3phvee Did you see @sheephorse's (somewhat nuclear) approach to fighting scrapers? https://sheep.horse/2026/2/i_am_experimenting_with_blocking_http1.1.html
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