le seeseepee has made software to scrape specific mastodon accounts

le EVIL SEESEEPEE is SPYING on QUEER USERS

i have a feeling it might be an extension of their state surveillance system!!!!!!!!!!!

original posts: ::: spoiler the CCP has made software to scrape specific mastodon accounts original link: https://tech.lgbt/@ShadowJonathan/111840265157264311

archived: https://archive.is/BMbc2

Okay, just to be clear;

Tencent/Alibaba/the CCP/whatever has specific software targeted at scraping mastodon servers, by hitting the unauthenticated "list posts from user" API endpoint, with specific account IDs, that they must've determined to be interesting from some moment or another.

The only way to get those account IDs is to ask the server to resolve them, thats already a step further than a normal scraping bot.

What's more, the IPs and user agents (basically, text which tells what browser you have) all ONLY hit this specific endpoint, meaning this is a targeted, predetermined, scraping operation.

By looking up the account IDs from the last dozen or so attempts that i see here in my logs, almost each of them are some colorful flavour of trans, gay, or enby.

They are specifically targeting us queer folks with this scraping. :::

confused by what this means? some scary chinese person is scraping allegedly mostly queer mastodon accounts. the chinese government (scary) is right and your doorstep and is going to eat your kids.

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