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[–] VonReposti@feddit.dk 17 points 1 week ago (2 children)

They're spamming all web logs too with an advertisement for their services in the user agent. I decided to ban them from all my websites because the logs took up too much space.

[–] mostlikelyaperson@lemmy.world 2 points 1 week ago

Yeah fuck them.

[–] TheKMAP@lemmynsfw.com 0 points 1 week ago (1 children)
[–] VonReposti@feddit.dk 3 points 1 week ago (1 children)

They're saying who they are, what they do, and are linking to their website and sometimes sends hundreds of requests in a minute. It might not say "For only €49.99 you can get your very own thing!”, but that does not mean they aren't throwing their name up in every website owner's arse whether they like it or not.

[–] TheKMAP@lemmynsfw.com 5 points 1 week ago (1 children)

It's so you know who is scanning you.

[–] VonReposti@feddit.dk 5 points 1 week ago

That could have been done by just having a single entry called GoogleBot or BingBot, not an entire sentence explaining their product offering let alone hundreds of times a minute.