I blocked almost all big players in hosting, China, Ruasia, Vietnam and now they’re now bombarding my site with residential IP address from all over the world. They must be using compromised smart home devices or phones with malware.
Soon everything on the internet will be behind a wall.
In the mean time, sites are getting DDOS-ed by scrapers. One way to stop your site from getting scraped is having it be inaccessible… which is what the scalpers are causing.
Normally I would assume DDOS-ing is performed in order to take a site offline. But ai-scalpers require the opposite. They need their targets online and willing. One would think they’d be a bit more careful about the damage they cause.
I blocked almost all big players in hosting, China, Ruasia, Vietnam and now they’re now bombarding my site with residential IP address from all over the world. They must be using compromised smart home devices or phones with malware.
Soon everything on the internet will be behind a wall.
This isn’t sustainable for the ai companies, when the bubble pops it will stop.
In the mean time, sites are getting DDOS-ed by scrapers. One way to stop your site from getting scraped is having it be inaccessible… which is what the scalpers are causing.
Normally I would assume DDOS-ing is performed in order to take a site offline. But ai-scalpers require the opposite. They need their targets online and willing. One would think they’d be a bit more careful about the damage they cause.
But they aren’t, because capitalism.
There are many commercial VPNs offering residential IPs. I doubt they use malware.
Not necessarily compromised, I saw a VPN provider (don’t remember the name) that offered a free tier where the client accepts being used for this.
And I suspect that in the future some VPN companies will be exposed doing the same but with their paid customers.