AI-Training Data Scrapers are constantly attacking the feddit.online instance, in the last 24 hours about 70% of all traffic here was a bot of nefarious intent.
This is a continuation of the problems experienced last weekend which were temporarily snubbed by CloudFlare filtering them out, but they always return eventually.
This is the reason many users have been complaining about poor uptime/stability.
Thank you!
Does your IP address fit xxx.154.xxx.xxx ? It’s one in common in the Cloudflare logs that came in from both Summit and Boost in the past 24 hours and shows that a challenge was issued by Cloudflare back to the app in response to the request, a challenge your phone app could not perform.
What I think then happened is that Boost assumed the server was broken because of the unexpected response, and it generated a 403 (Cloudflare actually returned a 200). Summit did the same but also made an inaccurate assumption about there being a rate limit. There is no rate limit rule that tripped in the past 24 hours. Unsure why it mentioned it.
Looking at these log entries, I think I figured out how to change the rule. Can you try it again?
Thank you so much for the help!
Yes, my IP was the one in x.154.x.x. It seems all good now! Thanks for getting it fixed so quick!
Thank you for letting me know! Based on the logs, it wasn’t just you. There were about 6 others using Summit and Boost. Unsure about other phone apps. Interestingly, the Voyager app has no problem, so I didn’t realize there was an issue because it’s what I tested with.
Please reach out if you encounter any other problems. The firewall rules are meant to surgically stop the 290K AI scrapes that have been coming in daily. It’s difficult to decide if a request is from an AI agent or a user. I expected some collateral damage. There may be more.