Vindication of yesterday’s decision to block Alibaba’s bots on Autocade: it’s attempting to access load.php with a huge string, not one that would normally be available to a casual web user As Autocade’s visitor numbers surge to over a million a month today, we are continuing to make sure the bots are blocked (and, […]
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It was sad to read of the passing of Ian Crawford, the former TV producer, whom I got to know through Lucire in his post-Crawfords career. I never pressed Ian about Crawford Productions and preferred to keep things on topic about his Pacific resort. It was out of respect as I had the sense (rightly […]
You’d think ChatGPT would get details about itself right. I wanted to check something out after adding more anti-bot rules to Cloudflare for our highest-traffic websites. (I had to do this manually as Cloudflare’s own method appears to block a few legit bots, like Huawei’s Petal search. That’s another story.) I know this goes against […]
Interesting to see the Autocade leaderboard as it was in 2022, as there are some differences today: The first image in the 2022 post was before the site was shifted to a new server. The second was from a couple of months later. There is some jostling around but at this rate, the […]
Read More… from Autocade’s top 20 leaderboard, three years since the reset