What if you’re blocked from my sites?
Or more likely: What if you’ve heard somebody say they’ve been blocked from my sites? If you’ve been blocked, you can’t read this, obviously.
Here’s what you can tell them:
“I’m sorry this is happening to you. Your ISP is probably renting out bandwidth and computing power to web scrapers with distributed IP addresses so I have no other option but block all their networks. A regular ban lasts for 1h. Repeated offenders are banned for a week. If the web scraping continues, so does the banning. You are probably an innocent victim of this arms race. Try switching providers, like switching from the phone to the laptop and back, or try the Tor browser. If you have a static IP address, contact me and I can add you to an allow list.”
For a longer explanation, see 2025-07-19 The current setup defending my sites.
2025-07-19 The current setup defending my sites
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