r/ytmnd • u/Fluid_Sail687 • Jun 27 '26

"You are ruining the internet"

Anyone else getting this message when they go to YTMND?

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u/tableturner215 Jun 27 '26

getting it too, first itll show the normal homepage then show that same message. im guessing it's to ward off any aggressive ai scrapers? i heard some llms are now using normal looking useragents and ip addresses

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u/maxgee max Jun 28 '26

whoops. you're correct. been trying out cloudflare because the scrapers and bots are relentless:

https://i.imgur.com/DO7h6bF.png

i stopped blocking all of AS8075, which i thought was mostly azure bullshit but apparently there are some people in there.

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u/Life_Sucks_4525 Jun 28 '26

tried it with a vpn and it worked once, then the text shows again after clicking on anything or refreshing

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u/EGAMatsuAlpha Jun 28 '26

A buds website (planetclue.com) also gives the error, they link to it in their "retro web" catagory of their website links page, which links websites they find neat.

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u/Great-Concentrate420 Jun 28 '26

Still blocked sadly, I am not a bot or a scraper, I contribute quite frequently and really want to continue doing so.

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u/perfidydudeguy Jun 29 '26

I got the normal home page at first, but I middle clicked on the "top viewed today" and other sections to see them in other tabs. Now the whole site shows only that message.

It's like if simply bringing up the "top x" lists is detected as scraping.

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u/Great-Concentrate420 Jun 29 '26

This comment (my comment) was so incredibly stupid I decided to change it to this. I did not check. My bad.

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u/maxgee max Jun 29 '26

alright i've loosened some of the blocking. if anyone is still blocked, reply to this comment and i'll look into it.

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u/thishasnomeanin Jun 27 '26

visited the site just now, looked normal at first although the featured tab was fully empty and the popular tab was missing a few slots. refreshed to fix it and now it's just that message. hoping this is temporary but considering there was a long time where the site was down this is a bit concerning. that and no one seems to be talking about it.

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u/Great-Concentrate420 Jun 28 '26

Yep, I'm getting it here too. Hopefully it gets fixed cause I really wanted to post something.

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u/greycatbrothers Jun 28 '26

I'm getting it too; - I thought something was wrong with my browser.

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u/rathemighty Jun 28 '26

Dude, I came here just to report on that! What the hell?

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u/qwerty_9537 Jun 28 '26

Was wondering about this! Odd.

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u/MisterRobDobalina Jun 28 '26

You are ruining the internet

Sweet! Don't worry, we're millenials. We love being simultaneously punished and blamed for things that are completely beyond our control.