Ross A. Baker<p>Today, scrapers from Alibaba Cloud generated 150GB of tarballs on my Forgejo and downloaded 200GB of data. I played whack-a-mole with their IPs when they ignored robots.txt. When I rate limited, they fanned out and came back stronger. Enough. The entire IP range is now being served gibberish from Iocaine.</p><p>If you have a legitimate use case from those IP ranges, please email me for consideration for an allow list.</p><p><a href="https://social.rossabaker.com/tags/AlibabaCloud" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>AlibabaCloud</span></a></p>