Is this tactic of forking and rebranding some sort of open source embrace, extend, extinguish thing? I guess I shouldn’t be surprised given it’s the company that blocks scrapers and sells scraping solutions.
theamk•1h ago
nah, it's plain AI stupidity, last paragraph tells it all.
> Is this a fork or slop-fork?
> Originally, I thought it's a proper fork using the original code-base. But given that the reasons for the fork seem to be largely LLM hallucinated, I think it counts as a slop-fork.
(Plus, their scraper always obeys robots.txt. If every scraper was like that, no one would ever need their anti-scraper solution)
SilverElfin•1h ago
theamk•1h ago
> Is this a fork or slop-fork?
> Originally, I thought it's a proper fork using the original code-base. But given that the reasons for the fork seem to be largely LLM hallucinated, I think it counts as a slop-fork.
(Plus, their scraper always obeys robots.txt. If every scraper was like that, no one would ever need their anti-scraper solution)