Commenters focused on how Meta's new terms won't stop scraping in practice and on practical defenses. Bender warned that robots.txt can't be relied on and suggested actively closing connections to obvious bots; Heronsunny argued blocking by user‑agent is useless because "meta-externalagent" rotates through non‑Meta ASNs and said matching on ASN plus TLS JA3 fingerprinting worked for them. Others proposed deception: cowlevel suggested serving false data, zeryx endorsed "angel banning" by returning seemingly plausible but wrong responses, while usrnm countered that feeding false data could consume as much or more resources than serving real content.
The conversation also drifted to cynical and ethical reactions to Meta itself. jareklupinski and shevy‑java mocked the company and its founder with renaming jokes, with shevy‑java explaining the literal meaning of Zuckerberg and calling his behavior "evil." cyanydeez framed the dispute as oligarchs being warned by "humanity experts," and esseph raised wider concerns by pointing to AI already being used for lethal military decisions. Comments mixed technical fixes, deception tactics, and political disgust, with clear disagreement about costs and practicality of defensive approaches.
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