points by xmcp123 2 days ago | 0 comments
If you block datacenter IP you’re also going to block all of the legitimate search engine crawlers.
[–] DaSHacka 2 days ago
[–] xmcp123 2 days ago
It is trivial to forge a Google bot user agent and scrape through GCP.
[–] DaSHacka 2 days ago
That wouldn't work if a sysadmin implemented the rDNS lookup mentioned in TFA. The PTR specifically must end in `.googlebot.com`, not `.googleusercontent.com`.
https://developers.google.com/crawling/docs/crawlers-fetcher...
(Though restricting the Google UA to only legitimate Google IPs seemingly would break Brave's crawler, though that's their own fault: https://safe.search.brave.com/help/brave-search-crawler/)
https://duckduckgo.com/duckduckgo-help-pages/results/duckduc...
https://www.bing.com/webmasters/help/how-to-verify-bingbot-3...
https://kagi.com/bot