Epic Games CEO says web browsing feels horrible now, Musk replies

Epic Games Founder and CEO Tim Sweeney on Saturday threw some recommendations to Elon Musk after Twitter account-walled its platform, stressing that web browsing feels horrible now.

Twitter stopped browsing entry on its web platform for individuals with out accounts, they usually should first create an account to view tweets.

“The web feels more and more damaged. News websites are paywalled or account walled, Reddit is nag walled, Google search spams adverts and search engine optimization to the purpose of uselessness, and now Twitter is account walled. Web browsing feels horrible now,” Sweeney posted.

Musk replied: “Several hundred organisations (possibly extra) have been scraping Twitter information extraordinarily aggressively, to the purpose the place it was affecting the true consumer expertise. What ought to we do to cease that? I’m open to concepts.”

To which, Sweeney urged that Twitter ought to thwart scraping patterns with “infosec engineering, forbid dangerous types of scraping when it comes to service, add a quantity based mostly liquidated damages clause, prominently litigate in opposition to massive scale industrial abuse”.

According to Musk, scraping is already disallowed by Twitterphrases and situations and the scraping organisations masks their IPs via proxy servers or via organisations that seem legit.

“For instance, a current huge scraping operation originating from Oracle IP addresses was simply utilizing their servers as a laundromat,” stated Musk.

Sweeney stated that it’s a cat-and-mouse sport of rate-limiting or blocking the cloud hosts and VPN IP ranges, “sending them a stream of stop & desists, and litigating in opposition to theAI corporations using the shady scraping sub-contractors”. “There’s no successful, only a rising mouse stack,” he argued.

(With inputs from IANS)