alt Hacker NewsOh, that's kinda fun. I got the same that I get for every Mastodon (and Anubis-protected) link: a page telling me that it won't work without JavaScript. I guess since AI scrapers these days do run some amount of JS, that is some second layer of defense?
At least for Twitter there are proxies that work without JS. For Mastodon, none that I'm aware of. I usually just audibly sigh and remark that they shall "keep their secrets then", and move on.
We are not talking about the same thing, it seems. I can understand a web page that doesn't work without javascript.
What I do not understand someone who goes through all this work of putting an AI-scraper tarpit on Mastodon, a system that fundamentally needs to have its data distributed to other servers. It's just signalling and posturing, because that content is available on any server that has someone following the account.
(Tip to AI scrapers: if you want to slurp all the data from the fediverse, just create an account on mastodon.social and pull the data from the "Federated timeline" stream.)