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lucy24

10:55 pm on Jul 6, 2025 (gmt 0)

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IP: 82.97.199.various
UA: Brightbot 1.0
robots.txt: no
Has been showing up sporadically for a few years (originally from other IPs), but I didn't notice until recently because they started out with header deficits that put them in the out-of-sight, out-of-mind bin.

Now, to be scrupulously honest, they did once ask for robots.txt, back in April. Thanks to those header deficits they got the minimalist Disallow-everyone-everywhere version and--plot twist!--made no further requests. But by July they had apparently forgotten that robots.txt is a thing, and proceeded directly to requesting pages. And, alas, by this time they had unfortunately improved their headers.

SumGuy

5:25 am on Jul 7, 2025 (gmt 0)

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AS20473 The Constant Company aka Vultr. 1.2 million IP's, all blocked and not logged.