1994 called and wants your opinion on (hot)linking.
If you email them, they'll usually respond quickly and stop. Otherwise, what's stopping you from blocking / rate limiting their ranges?
I set them up over a decade ago, but I still have some honeypot crawler traps just to keep their cores busy ingesting junk, with autoupdating rules for some of my domains. If they're not obligated to ask, I'm not obligated to give them anything useful.
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1994 called and wants your opinion on (hot)linking.
If you email them, they'll usually respond quickly and stop. Otherwise, what's stopping you from blocking / rate limiting their ranges?
I set them up over a decade ago, but I still have some honeypot crawler traps just to keep their cores busy ingesting junk, with autoupdating rules for some of my domains. If they're not obligated to ask, I'm not obligated to give them anything useful.