Re: [Lynx-dev] help with ff.net.

[Karen Lewellen]

Hi David,
But that is part of what makes this situation so unique.
Fanfiction.net experienced a distributed denial-of-service attack.
Granted, I may be wrong, but that kind of flooding tends to take computer 
bots, certainly scripted software.
However, instead of the individual right now, it is the download programs, 
of which  there are a few, that can  bypass the captcha, reach the site 
and get content.
Individuals would get the ads, but individuals are blocked.  Programs like 
caliber which has a fanfiction plug in, and fanfiction downloader which I 
understand just gets stories, both letting you create a library?  Their 
developers can code past or hack past the door.
One would think it might work in reverse, computer programs being blocked, 
but individuals  getting through.
Kare



On Thu, 24 Dec 2020, David Woolley wrote:

> On 24/12/2020 05:56, Karen Lewellen wrote:
> >  he thing  about using a downloader program is that you get the stories,
> >  in text, without advertising allowing you to just open the file in lynx if
> >  you  want to read that way, or off line.
>
>
> This is precisely the sort of reason a site would want to block you! Sites 
> are there to sell advertising, and the editorial is just a way of doing that.
>
>
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