[HN Gopher] HellPot - A portal to endless suffering meant to pun...
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       HellPot - A portal to endless suffering meant to punish unruly HTTP
       bots
        
       Author : mikae1
       Score  : 17 points
       Date   : 2024-07-25 20:48 UTC (2 hours ago)
        
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       | thepuppet33r wrote:
       | I feel like this is cool, but is also a harbinger of how the
       | Internet is becoming a bunch of bots trying to trick other bots
       | away from the real content, which is how often being written by
       | bots (at least in part).
        
         | blantonl wrote:
         | It's bots all the way down...
        
         | supportengineer wrote:
         | We should turn all of this shit off, go outside, and breathe
         | some fresh air.
        
       | alyandon wrote:
       | I wrote a similar tool years ago to get better acquainted with
       | Go. It was an endless procedurally generated website of linked
       | pages that contained things that looked like email addresses
       | along with username/password combinations.
       | 
       | The logs were fun to watch.
        
       | surfingdino wrote:
       | We need this to punish all those AI scrapers... I approve!
        
       | metadat wrote:
       | Is there a demo site where we can see this in action?
        
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