Austin Huang ❤️<p>Since people are dunking on <a href="https://mstdn.party/tags/Meta" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Meta</span></a> <a href="https://mstdn.party/tags/scraping" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>scraping</span></a> again I'll share one tidbit: when <span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://mastodon.neat.computer/@jonah" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">@<span>jonah</span></a></span> and I was investigating some performance issues, I noticed that Meta-ExternalAgent was scraping /auth/sign_up and one specific invite link with different `accept` parameters (which indicates acceptance of rules), however because Mastodon returns 200 (and shows the rules again) on invalid `accept` parameters the <a href="https://mstdn.party/tags/scraper" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>scraper</span></a> just keeps going...</p>