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@martinus @leah I disagree. If you tell a remote entity, eg by registered mail to the CEO and board or similar, that they are forbidden from accessing your server at all for any reason ("withdrawing implied rights of access") then in the UK at least all continued access is unauthorised and illegal. It is an approach that I have used a few times to keep out persistently badly behaving identifiable bots and spiders. 3 comments
@martinus @leah Sorry, I wasn't being clear! What I meant to point out is that at least within the UK you can make their action illegal by telling them (human-to-human) that their access to your servers is now unauthorised. Usually, as you point out, the troublemaker goes away relatively soon anyway. But for persistent long-term repeat offenders it's a useful tool. I have used it with bad search spiders, SEO companies, and recently AI nonsense. @EarthOrgUK @leah I live in Belgium and what you mention is a very interesting way to go or add to the toolkit. I'm not sure how our legislation is about this subject, but I guess there will be not too much. The governments here are quite apathic with new technologies, even backwards. |
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@EarthOrgUK @leah I do not approach any CEO, I just use the method described and guess what? My webserver statistics show me that scraping is, more or less, done. There is still some scraping, but those are either bots from individuals that are not mentioned in the .htaccess file or in the firewall, or brand new bots that I wasn't aware of.
It's a continue job, which is, now it works, fun to do.