They are trying to see what they can get away with.

Banning IP ranges isn’t going to work. A lot of these companies rent out home IP addresses.

Also the point isn’t just protecting content, it’s data poisoning.

That’s the reason for the maze. These companies have multiple IP addresses and bots that communicate with each other.

They can go through multiple entries in the robot.txt file. Once they learn they are banned, they go scrape the old fashioned way with another IP address.

But if you create a maze, they just continually scrape useless data, rather than scraping data you don’t want them to get.

Reading the title and looking at the thumbnail, I was thinking, “sure I’ll do a good deed and help out a noob.” Then I read your post and I realized you know what you’re doing better than me.

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What is an “actual target hardware platform”?

I don’t exactly know what you mean but here is the OS and CPU they use.

• Operating System: Linux 5.10 with Buildroot

• CPU: RockChip RV1106G3, Cortex A7 1.0GHz, H264 & H265 hardware encoder

Are you looking for the reference manual?

To reduce e-waste, a law should be passed that if hardware is abandoned, it should be open sourced.