Post #2686073
2025-05-12 13:53 UTC
@gimulnautti@mastodon.green @tdp_org@mastodon.social
It might not actually be spoofing.
Big Tech has started injecting crawlers into their SDKs for mobile apps, turning end user phones into crawlers.
Not even remotely less shady of course.
Replies (4)
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@gimulnautti@mastodon.green 2025-05-12 13:55
@ck@chaos.social @tdp_org@mastodon.social omg, when you thought it couldn’t get worse… 🤦♂️
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@edsu@social.coop 2025-05-12 14:06
@ck@chaos.social @gimulnautti@mastodon.green @tdp_org@mastodon.social this is the worst -- have you read about this practice anywhere?
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@tirrimas@beige.party 2025-05-12 14:31
@ck@chaos.social @gimulnautti@mastodon.green @tdp_org@mastodon.social aw Jesus F Christ
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@tdp_org@mastodon.social 2025-05-12 14:31
@ck@chaos.social @gimulnautti@mastodon.green Yeah i have heard of that too - never underestimate how shady some orgs are prepared to be eh? In this case, I don't think that's what's happening - we typically see about 50k distinct ASNs per day whereas this traffic was on something like 30-40 ASNs.