AMD, please stop scraping our website
This isn’t news, this is just a rare glimpse of what sometimes happens behind the curtains of maintaining a high-traffic news site. Apparently someone at AMD thought it was important to monitor our website 24/7.
We recently noticed a strange surge of invalid requests hitting our website. After checking the traffic, we found roughly 26.6K requests in the last 24 hours, and the source pointed back to AMD’s network.
War Room deployed
What caught our attention is that these were not normal page visits. The requests were targeting content that does not exist on our site, which made it clear this was some kind of automated monitoring or scraping activity. The traffic also exposed a war-room-dashboard user agent, which is where the “war room” label comes from. I believe it is this open-source project located here.
Source: VideoCardz
So here is a friendly reminder to AMD. We have an email address, and they can always ask us for comment or input directly. There is no need to send bots after our site, especially when several of our previous emails have gone unanswered (including the one about FSR4 INT8, btw). That’s why we are not going to bother writing to you about this, rather will just block the network if this continues. Thank you for your attention to this matter.
For the record, we already provide an official RSS feed for anyone who wants to follow our content properly. And by the way, Markham was ATI’s old HQ.
