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yay, another fucking scrapebro
https://mas.to/@patrikcsak/109917221695178868
seems to struggle a lot getting the overview for gargron, so maybe that's a way to overload it :")
@f0x looking at the network requests, it looks like the autocomplete works using searches on the mastodon.social server. I couldn't find evidence of it storing the data.
Also, it didn't work for my account (showed some empty blocks instead of posts), but it also seems to be doing things locally (again, searches against the Mastodon API) 🤷
it doesn't seem able to list any toots from me, but did autocomplete my username with avatar, so they have a scraped user database for sure.
also no known way to even opt-out, not that that'd be enough. shit like this needs actual consent through opt-in