Another interesting deterrent is to poison unruly scrapers with infinite nonsense via Markov chains https://algorithmic-sabotage.github.io/asrg/trapping-ai/
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i've seen people call this a tarpit and for some reason that brings me great joy
Both very nice ideas, I'm interested in how effective they really are
For brotli compression, first check if nginx/angie has the correct modules (brotli and brotli_static) (nginx -V). If not, you can install it like so: https://www.getpagespeed.com/server-setup/nginx/brotli-static
Then create your brotli bomb by modifying the original author's fish command: fish zip_bomb.fish | brotli --best > bomb.html.br