• CosmicTurtle@lemmy.world
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      2 years ago

      I think I used to do something similar with email spam traps. Not sure if it’s still around but basically you could help build NaCL lists by posting an email address on your website somewhere that was visible in the source code but not visible to normal users, like in a div that was way on the left side of the screen.

      Anyway, spammers that do regular expression searches for email addresses would email it and get their IPs added to naughty lists.

      I’d love to see something similar with robots.

        • Nighed@sffa.community
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          2 years ago

          but with all of the cloud resources now, you can switch through IP addresses without any trouble. hell, you could just browse by IP6 and not even worry with how cheap those are!

    • KairuByte@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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      2 years ago

      I’m the idiot human that digs through robots.txt and the site map to see things that aren’t normally accessible by an end user.