7 pointsby switz4 hours ago2 comments
  • phpnode13 minutes ago
    This is a ridiculous article and reeks of insecurity at the top at Vercel. You cannot expect to reap the benefits of open source software without accounting for the costs.
  • SilverElfin4 hours ago
    Is this tactic of forking and rebranding some sort of open source embrace, extend, extinguish thing? I guess I shouldn’t be surprised given it’s the company that blocks scrapers and sells scraping solutions.
    • theamk3 hours ago
      nah, it's plain AI stupidity, last paragraph tells it all.

      > Is this a fork or slop-fork?

      > Originally, I thought it's a proper fork using the original code-base. But given that the reasons for the fork seem to be largely LLM hallucinated, I think it counts as a slop-fork.

      (Plus, their scraper always obeys robots.txt. If every scraper was like that, no one would ever need their anti-scraper solution)