ɐɥO
link
fedilink
603M

I disallow a page in my robots.txt and ip-ban everyone who goes there. Thats pretty effective.

Can this be done without fail2ban?

Should be able to do it with Crowdsec

ɐɥO
link
fedilink
13M

probably. never used it tho

How did you do it? Looking to do this on my own site.

ɐɥO
link
fedilink
32M

My websites Backend is written in flask so it was pretty easy to add

Is the page linked in the site anywhere, or just mentioned in the robots.txt file?

ɐɥO
link
fedilink
103M

Only in the robots.txt

Excellent.

I think I might be able to create a fail2ban rule for that.

I doubt it’d be possible in most any way due to lack of server control, but I’m definitely gonna have to look this up to see if anything similar could be done on a neocities site.

Not sure if that is effective at all. Why would a crawler check the robots.txt if it’s programmed to ignore it anyways?

You could also place the same page as a hidden link on your home page.

Google and script kiddies copying code…

ɐɥO
link
fedilink
163M

cause many crawlers seem to explicitly crawl “forbidden” sites

JackbyDev
link
fedilink
163M

Did you ban it in your humans.txt too?

bountygiver [any]
link
fedilink
18
edit-2
3M

humans typically don’t visit [website]/fdfjsidfjsidojfi43j435345 when there’s no button that links to it

I used to do this on one of my sites that was moderately popular in the 00’s. I had a link hidden via javascript, so a user couldn’t click it (unless they disabled javascript and clicked it), though it was hidden pretty well for that too.

IP hits would be put into a log and my script would add a /24 of that subnet into my firewall. I allowed specific IP ranges for some search engines.

Anyway, it caught a lot of bots. I really just wanted to stop automated attacks and spambots on the web front.

I also had a honeypot port that basically did the same thing. If you sent packets to it, your /24 was added to the firewall for a week or so. I think I just used netcat to add to yet another log and wrote a script to add those /24’s to iptables.

I did it because I had so much bad noise on my logs and spambots, it was pretty crazy.

Mikelius
link
fedilink
103M

This thread has provided genius ideas I somehow never thought of, and I’m totally stealing them for my sites lol.

JackbyDev
link
fedilink
14
edit-2
3M

I LOVE VISITING FDFJSIDFJSIDOJFI435345 ON HUMAN WEBSITES, IT IS ONE OF MY FAVORITE HUMAN HOBBIES. 🤖👨

LazaroFilm
link
fedilink
93M

Can you explain this more?

JackbyDev
link
fedilink
253M

Imagine posting a rule that says “do not walk on the grass” among other rules and then banning anyone who steps on the grass with the thought process that if they didn’t obey that rule they were likely disobeying other rules. Except the grass is somewhere that no one would see unless they actually read the rules. The rules were the only place that mentioned that grass.

Create a post

A place to discuss privacy and freedom in the digital world.

Privacy has become a very important issue in modern society, with companies and governments constantly abusing their power, more and more people are waking up to the importance of digital privacy.

In this community everyone is welcome to post links and discuss topics related to privacy.

Some Rules

  • Posting a link to a website containing tracking isn’t great, if contents of the website are behind a paywall maybe copy them into the post
  • Don’t promote proprietary software
  • Try to keep things on topic
  • If you have a question, please try searching for previous discussions, maybe it has already been answered
  • Reposts are fine, but should have at least a couple of weeks in between so that the post can reach a new audience
  • Be nice :)

Related communities

Chat rooms

much thanks to @gary_host_laptop for the logo design :)

  • 0 users online
  • 57 users / day
  • 383 users / week
  • 1.5K users / month
  • 5.7K users / 6 months
  • 1 subscriber
  • 2.98K Posts
  • 74.8K Comments
  • Modlog