weird russian site [#]

occasionally i check my nginx logs. this time i noticed something wierd: an ip address spamming invidious API requests:

i break gdpr rules for fun

interestingly, it doesn't seem to have noticed that i've been blocking its requests lol

i investigated further and this IP hosts this website:

russian fake youtube

it seems just to be an amalgamation of random youtube videos with download links. probably exists just to get pittance in ad revenue. i also checked and from that IP there seems to be a tiktok version too with identical CSS

isp

this is the ISP. looking it up it has a terrible reputation:

isp abuse

sauce

not much i can do about it, besides block. kinda shitty that these sites and isps exist though. hopefully it'll get shut down with the number of complaints it has