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The original was posted on /r/selfhosted by /u/circa10a on 2025-03-11 03:57:30+00:00.
Hey all! Not long ago, this caddy-defender project was posted as a self-hosted defensive reverse proxy. I loved the project and somewhat selfishly contributed functionality to create a "tarpit" which is a way to effectively trap and waste bots' time. In this case, my goal was to come up with a way to trap AI training bots that crawl websites and feed them crap data. Thus, I created ai-troller.
ai-troller builds on the caddy-defender module and slowly streams the script of an episode of It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia. Specifically, the episode where every cast member gets addicted to crack. Anyway, I thought this was fun project to do and wanted to share how a bit how caddy-defender is supporting OSS with thanks to r/selfhosted