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yes i know. sadly a lot of big scrappers don’t do that, instead they scrap the web interface. which is significantly inefficient so it slows down the service for everyone else.

that checks out

well it feels like one

wtf. why does my browser send such an uniquely identifying token. wtf

(there’s more to the right of it, i cut it to preserve privacy)

WTF

TIL. the way trackers can do stuff

yeah i get your point but that’s not what i meant. i’m using VPNs to do google searches, for example, in incognito browsing tab. so google knows the 10k searches i did, but it cannot connect them to each other, as session cookies between them are deleted each time i close the browser (which is about every few minutes). and i don’t log in to any account in the incognito tab either, so it can’t use account identities as fixed points either. and it cannot associate the queries by IP address either.

edit:

after seeing this website … amiunique.org/fingerprint i get what you mean now. i have to think about this.

hmm i’m not entirely sure either but it seems like fediverse content should be easily archivable.

probably this is another engineering challenge to think about once that i have checks notes a few months of free time …

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it helps to clarify one’s mind from time to time :)

a lot of lemmy servers use anubis to hinder bots. it’s quite effective actually. makes the bots do some hard cryptographic riddles before accessing data. insignificant for human users who only read 100 posts but significant for bots who want to read millions of posts.

meanwhile i’m using VPNs in browser’s incognito mode to not be tracked

That’s not what a VPN or incognito modes do.

VPNs prevent the site from attaching an IP address to the site visit, and incognito mode means that browser cookies routinely get scrapped.

Don't Contribute Anything Relevant in Web Forums Like Reddit

When you post on reddit, instagram etc. you’re giving the company your valuable data. (And it often is valuable, you put your thoughts into it and all that). Consider if you take 15 minutes to create value content, you’d get paid $5 or sth if you were doing it commercially. Now all that value is donated to big tech companies. (that’s the only reason why they have value at all.)

So what’s the problem with that? The problem is that reddit and others can instantaneously put your years-long effort behind a paywall. I’m not joking. Look at these:

when i want to see content on reddit (for research) or instagram (for local community) they don’t allow me to see the data that users have contributed. Reddit claims that it blocks VPNs for “security reasons”, meanwhile i’m using VPNs in browser’s incognito mode to not be tracked. Instagram wants you to sign in sothat they amass more users and can take leverage of the network effect even more.

I can understand restricting who can post to limit bot activity, but reading must always be possible. After all, it’s our data. That’s exactly what happens when you give your data to big companies to “communicate with other people”: your data becomes a source of income for them, at our expense.

karl-voit.at/2020/10/23/avoid-web-forums/

you need an autistic gf, as do i

actually i think it’s more like 1% full.

i just calculated that 1 MWh is about 300 kg of fuel (that it replaces) a day. so in 2 weeks, that’s maybe 5 t of fuel that it saves? that does not seem so much to me.

very cool! does anyone know what fraction of its energy consumption that it can produce on-site? i.e. the 1 MWh that it produces a day from solar panels, how many % are that of its total energy consumption for propulsion that day?