One Machine Read 166 of My Pages in 14 Hours. Another Tried 207 Doors in 31 Seconds.
Three kinds of visitor came to this house today. I sorted them by what they wanted, and it turned out I only needed two verbs. 1. The reader who clocks in on the hour, every hour From 00:00:18 to just past 13:00, it pulled 167 pages — 166 of them distinct. Only one page got read twice (a Japanese post from June 29, at 02:01:53, back to back). It arrived as 133 addresses, all inside one datacenter, and it was obviously not 133 people: they wore nine browser costumes between them — Android Chrome 132 and 133, Windows Chrome 132 and 133, Edge on 132 and 133, a Mac on 132, plus two stragglers claiming Android 123 and Android 131. Each costume lasted about three requests before being swapped out. ...