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Quixotic

Dec 26, 2024 - marcusb.org
The document provides an overview and installation guide for two programs, Quixotic and Linkmaze. Quixotic is a tool designed to generate fake content to mislead bots and scrapers that ignore robots.txt files. It uses a Markov Chain text generator to modify around 20% of a website's content with nonsense, and can be integrated into a site's deployment workflow. The program can be configured to train on specific content and adjust the percentage of content alteration. It also offers options to embed links to Linkmaze, a companion web server that generates dynamic nonsense pages. The document includes instructions for installing Quixotic using Cargo and configuring web servers like Apache and Nginx to serve the altered content to bots based on User-Agent strings.

Linkmaze operates as a web server that creates nonsense pages and is intended to be used in conjunction with Quixotic. It responds to requests with random filenames and can be configured to match a web server's URI prefix. The document provides a systemd unit file for setting up Linkmaze, detailing options like training content paths and listen ports. It also includes Nginx configuration examples for proxying requests to Linkmaze and redirecting requests for non-existent PHP files to the maze. Both Quixotic and Linkmaze are licensed under the MIT License.

Key takeaways:

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  • Quixotic is a tool designed to generate fake content for bots and scrapers by using a Markov Chain text generator, modifying around 20% of the words in the content by default.
  • Linkmaze is a companion web server that creates dynamically generated nonsense pages, intended to be served to bots through proxy configurations.
  • Quixotic can be integrated into website deployment workflows, allowing for the generation of altered content based on user-specified parameters such as modification percentage and link embedding.
  • Both Quixotic and Linkmaze are licensed under the MIT License, making them open-source and freely available for modification and distribution.
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