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Edit: Update 2024-10-30

Let it be known that Mr. Alexandru was very patient with me and resolved everything for me by upgrading his infrastructure a few days later. I really appreciate it!


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[-] PorkrollPosadist@hexbear.net 20 points 1 month ago

Do scrapers download whole videos?

I don't know, each one is designed for a specific purpose. Some people might scrape for archival reasons, some might do it for AI training data, some might do it to build analytic user profiles, some might do it for academic reasons, some might do it to build search indices. I can't think of a great reason to just download all the videos, but people do really dumb shit when someone else is paying the bill.

I don't know where to begin for traffic monitoring like that. HetrixTools?'

Unfortunately I don't have any great recommendations here. I'm looking into this myself. Ideally you'll want a tool that can monitor the network interface and aggregate data on bandwidth per IP or MAC. That will at least give you an idea if anything seems egregious. (if it is by IP, it could be a large number of machines behind a NAT though, like a university or something). ntopng has piqued my interest. I might try it out and report back.

[-] PorkrollPosadist@hexbear.net 12 points 1 month ago

Ntopng seems useful. They're really trying to push licenses for "enterprise" features, but the "community edition" is available under the GPLv3 license and allows you to track throughput to remote hosts. Not sure how much of a performance impact it makes.

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