• turkishdelight@lemmy.ml
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    8 months ago

    it’s that they basically created a ddos attack with how they were scraping the data.

    This is trivial to mitigate with a common-sense throttling. You throttle at a level that would not bother a human, but would still block a bot. Almost all websites like Instagram do this.

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      8 months ago

      Yeah, that’s why it’s ultimately on Midjourney for not protecting against that.

      My point was just that the title is misleading and this isn’t a case of them banning a dev account just for scraping. It’s pretty standard to ban accounts that exhibit bot-like behavior, so this really isn’t even news.