ATProto Browser

ATProto Browser

Experimental browser for the Atmosphere

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I feel like you should be able to zip-bomb scraper bots fairly easily, without much false positives, since they tend to ignore robots.txt: Zip bomb sits in a directory marked as disallowed in robots.txt but that is otherwise publicly accessible, so any bot that just scrapes everything gets the bomb

May 4, 2025, 4:07 PM

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    "text": "I feel like you should be able to zip-bomb scraper bots fairly easily, without much false positives, since they tend to ignore robots.txt: Zip bomb sits in a directory marked as disallowed in robots.txt but that is otherwise publicly accessible, so any bot that just scrapes everything gets the bomb",
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