it’s that they basically created a ddos attack with how they were scraping the data.
This is trivial to mitigate with a common-sense throttling. You throttle at a level that would not bother a human, but would still block a bot. Almost all websites like Instagram do this.
Yeah, that’s why it’s ultimately on Midjourney for not protecting against that.
My point was just that the title is misleading and this isn’t a case of them banning a dev account just for scraping. It’s pretty standard to ban accounts that exhibit bot-like behavior, so this really isn’t even news.
It’s not that they were scraping the data, it’s that they basically created a ddos attack with how they were scraping the data.
It’s still on midjourney for not putting protections in place to prevent it, though.
This is trivial to mitigate with a common-sense throttling. You throttle at a level that would not bother a human, but would still block a bot. Almost all websites like Instagram do this.
Yeah, that’s why it’s ultimately on Midjourney for not protecting against that.
My point was just that the title is misleading and this isn’t a case of them banning a dev account just for scraping. It’s pretty standard to ban accounts that exhibit bot-like behavior, so this really isn’t even news.