Many sites have been affected by the aggressiveness of web crawlers designed to improve LLMs.
I’ve been relatively spared, but since the phenomenon started, I've been looking for a solution to implement.
Today, I present a zip bomb gzip and brotli that is valid HTML.
For brotli compression, first check if nginx/angie has the correct modules (
brotliandbrotli_static) (nginx -V). If not, you can install it like so: https://www.getpagespeed.com/server-setup/nginx/brotli-staticThen create your brotli bomb by modifying the original author’s fish command:
fish zip_bomb.fish | brotli --best > bomb.html.br