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1. Mooey moo of mooheim (maxine@social.mootech.eu)'s status on Tuesday, 09-Jul-2019 13:59:08 EDT Mooey moo of mooheim

   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

   1. Sam the Octopus (troublemoney@computerfairi.es)'s status on Tuesday, 09-Jul-2019 14:11:22 EDT Sam the Octopus

      in reply to

      @maxine there isn't currently an HTTP status code for "Fuck off" but if cloudflare can add arbitrary bullshit so can we
      
      Formally proposing status 470 for telling a client to Fuck Off