Comment by fooker

3 months ago

Someone from your university tried to scrape data from Google.

I know it's still not justified, but it's the easy solution that works for preventing DOS attacks.

>Someone from your university tried to scrape data from Google.

Kinda wild that someone scraping google's data would prevent me from getting into my PAID (>90$/yr) Dropbox account. That experience is a big part of why I pay extra to host my host data on my own server now.

  • Yep, that's how the internet works now unfortunately.

    Decentralization, hosting your own stuff, is great until you run into DDOS attacks and have to make maintaining your server a full time job. Sure you have the skills (or can acquire it), but do you have the time ?