I’m using CloudFlare to hide my home IP and to reduce traffic from clankers. However, I’m using the free tier, so how am I the product? What am I sacrificing? Is there another way to do the above without selling my digital soul?

  • Admiral Patrick@dubvee.org
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    10 hours ago

    Oooooh. That’s smart. I mostly host apps, but in theory, I should be able to dynamically modify the response body and tack on some HTML for a hidden button and do that.

    I used to disallow everything in robots.txt but the worst crawlers just ignored it. Now my robots.txt says all are welcome and every bot gets shunted to the tarpit 😈

    • mesa@piefed.social
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      10 hours ago

      Nice! Thats another way to do it. 😀

      I know others use Arabis(?) I think thats what it called. The anime girl one that does a calc on top. Ive never had good luck with it. I think bot are using something to get around and it messes with my requests. Might also be my own fiddling.