DarknessEternal said:
I'm not hitting the 403s anymore (I assume you implemented User-Agent checks as you indicated so that things that're explicitly clearly not-bot like "Danbooru User DarknessEternal" or such are OK), but if some of us have tooling that runs from specific IPs, would you be able to permit static IP ranges if we end up hitting the 403s errantly again? Just curious for the future since all my infra has Static IPs (even my home, yay business grade internet!)
I’m pretty sure evazion won’t start whitelisting specific IPs on request, considering that this whole issue with mass downloaders is already consuming too much of his time. If he whitelists one user, everyone else will request to be whitelisted as well.
If you set your UA and/or referrer correctly, it’s supposed to work, unless it doesn’t because you got blocked intentionally. If it’s working erratically, it’s a bug that needs to be fixed, not worked around with whitelists.