people still use plex after the last sneaky they pulled?

Even if that was possible, I don’t want to crash innocents peoples browsers. My tar pits are deployed on live environments that normal users could find themselves navigating to and it’s overkill when if you simply respond to 404 Not Found with 200 OK and serve 15MB on the “error” page then bots will stop going to your site because you’re not important enough to deal with. It’s a low bar, but your data isn’t worth someone looking at your tactics and even thinking about circumventing it. They just stop attacking you.

Bots will blacklist your IP if you make it hostile to bots

This will save you bandwidth

Build tar pits.

Valve are good in my book for no other reason than their investment in Linux and adjacent open projects like SteamVR, but yes. They made some of my favorites games, and also ruined them so now I can’t play them. They arguably kickstarted the concept of lootboxes.

Valve has, for all their flaws, at least done something very valuable for me. Epic has done nil and in some cases worked to make my life worse.