<story><title>ByteDance is abusing the free video downloading service Cobalt for mass scraping</title><url>https://twitter.com/uwukko/status/1842538843720868016</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>Tiberium</author><text>Important to note that the author &lt;i&gt;assumes&lt;/i&gt; that this is ByteDance, but the ASN belongs to their cloud solution BytePlus, which could be used by other companies.&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;x.com&amp;#x2F;sauceo_&amp;#x2F;status&amp;#x2F;1842866301066518875&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;x.com&amp;#x2F;sauceo_&amp;#x2F;status&amp;#x2F;1842866301066518875&lt;/a&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;www.byteplus.com&amp;#x2F;en&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;www.byteplus.com&amp;#x2F;en&lt;/a&gt;</text></comment>
<story><title>ByteDance is abusing the free video downloading service Cobalt for mass scraping</title><url>https://twitter.com/uwukko/status/1842538843720868016</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>conradfr</author><text>Some time ago I noticed the ByteDance spider very aggressively scraping my modest side project and, more importantly, modest server.&lt;p&gt;I wrote to them to please stop (I think the address was in the user agent or something), they replied sorry and actually stopped.&lt;p&gt;Not sure why all these crawlers can&amp;#x27;t pace themselves.</text></comment>