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taikahessu ◴[] No.42726337[source]
We had our non-profit website drained out of bandwidth and site closed temporarily (!!) from our hosting deal because of Amazon bot aggressively crawling like ?page=21454 ... etc.

Gladly Siteground restored our site without any repercussions as it was not our fault. Added Amazon bot into robots.txt after that one.

Don't like how things are right now. Is a tarpit the solution? Or better laws? Would they stop the chinese bots? Should they even? I don't know.

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1. nosioptar ◴[] No.42743952[source]
I want better laws. The boot operator should have to pay you damages for taking down your site.

If acting like inconsiderate tools starts costing money, they may stop.