Slacker News Slacker News logo featuring a lazy sloth with a folded newspaper hat
  • top
  • new
  • show
  • ask
  • jobs
Library
← Back to context

Comment by SteveNuts

5 months ago

It’ll most likely eventually help, as long as they don’t have an infinite address pool.

Do these bots use some client software (browser plugin, desktop app) that’s consuming unsuspecting users bandwidth for distributed crawling?

0 comments

SteveNuts

Reply

No comments yet

Contribute on Hacker News ↗

Slacker News

Product

  • API Reference
  • Hacker News RSS
  • Source on GitHub

Community

  • Support Ukraine
  • Equal Justice Initiative
  • GiveWell Charities