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Blocklist scraping by fash
So this has been an ongoing issue, would love it if people found the earlier threads about it for more context cause I don't have the spoons right now
Originally written by "mint", hosted on the kiwifarms git is a tool that continuously scrapes publicized instance blocklists to allow searching who has you blocked (resulting in emails like uwu we did nothing wrong how dare you block our instance)
Through correlation, turns out the main IP being used by fba.ryona.agency is `54.37.233.246`. Blocking that at the firewall level prevents them from getting any new data.
Other instances exist too though, being hosted on
`23.24.204.110`, `45.86.70.49`, `88.65.6.124`, `187.190.192.31`
the drow.be / bka.li / teleyal.blog / mooneyed.de "kromonos" user has their own version, that feeds an API that gives your instance a highscore for blocking their shit, scrapes from `185.244.192.119`, with user agents presenting as random instances
These, and other scrapish ip's are also listed in https://git.pixie.town/f0x/nixos/src/branch/main/nodes/aura/configuration.nix#L103
toot/blocklist scraping info request
can other server admins grep their logs for `159.196.229.70`, they seem to be doing mass scraping of public timelines, toots and blocklists.
from an Australian residential ip?
re: toot/blocklist scraping info request
If so, you can send an abuse report to abuse@aussiebroadband.com.au, regarding ips `159.196.229.70` and `2a01:4f8:162:6027::2`. One of my servers shows scraping access logs going back to at least December 2022
