I don’t know what happened, but since yesterday, the Boost for Lemmy App stopped working so I visited the instance website (dbzer0) in my browser and I was getting these… texts with choices (which lead to even more pointless texts)
I don’t think I am banned because if I use VPN, I can reload the webpage on my WiFi and see the real dbzer0 lemmy again, and I can login and create posts, but the moment I turn off my VPN, it all goes back to the same white page with those texts.
My Mobile Data also works loads the website, but my WiFi doesn’t without a VPN for some reason.
Please help!
This specific scraping defense is a tarpit, probably Nepenthes. It doesn’t specifically detect AI scrapers, but it’s designed to trap them into an infinite maze of pages with bogus data. AI scrapers keep clicking the links, waiting long times for the pages to load, and getting useless data that they can’t train on.