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1. Dorky moo girl (maxine@social.mootech.eu)'s status on Tuesday, 09-Jul-2019 17:59:08 UTC Dorky moo girl

   Gab actually uses a custom user agent to grab stuff.

   Mastodon does the same, but this makes it easy to make sure gab instances can't pull from you!

   add
   if ($http_user_agent ~* (gabsocial)) {
   return 403;
   }

   To your nginx configuration. That blocks all requests with a user agent that includes "gabsocial" (case insensitive)

   You can also add other user agents, at your leisure

   It just returns a 403 if they try to pull

   • Laurelai Bailey repeated this.
   • jəˈrunˈprɑːt (jeroenpraat@todon.nl@todon.nl)'s status on Thursday, 11-Jul-2019 21:11:32 UTC jəˈrunˈprɑːt

     in reply to

     @maxine To combine this with 'Nginx Bad Bot and User-Agent Blocker, …' (https://github.com/mitchellkrogza/nginx-ultimate-bad-bot-blocker), just put this at the end of /etc/nginx/bots.d/blacklist-user-agents.conf:

     "~*\bgabsocial\b" 3;

     soloojos (Mastodon) repeated this.
   • Laurelai Bailey (laurelai@mastodon.starrevolution.org)'s status on Tuesday, 23-Jul-2019 16:58:04 UTC Laurelai Bailey

     in reply to

     @maxine This doesnt work. Nginx wont start when i put that in the config