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cookiengineertoday at 4:20 AM1 replyview on HN

Remember the 90s when viagra pills and drug recommendations were all over the place?

Yeah, I use that as a safeguard :D The URLs that I don't want to be indexed have hundreds of those keywords that are leading to URLs being deindexed directly. There is also some law in the US that forbids to show that as a result, so Google and Bing are both having a hard time scraping those pages/articles.

Note that this is the latest defense measurement before eBPF blocks. The first one uses zip bombs and the second one uses chunked encoding to blow up proxies so their clients get blocked.

You can only win this game if you make it more expensive to scrape than to host it.


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n1xis10ttoday at 4:26 AM

Which law is that? Do you have a link to it?

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