I'm thinking of a very simple service that would detect an http request for a "trigger" URL - let's say something embedded in a page but styled to be invisible to sighted humans - and then deny further requests to that IP/user-agent.
Does that exist already?
Rationale: blocking bad bots that ignore robots.txt. The anchor text for the hyperlink would read "if you click here, you will be blocked" to provide notice to people with screen readers.
Mr Salteena is not quite a gentleman
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2025-01-15 20:23:25 UTC
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