Garbage feeds Markov junk to scrapers

This is the web fighting back with sabotage instead of polite refusal.

• –Serving junk instead of a plain 410 turns unwanted crawling into wasted bandwidth, compute, and low-value training data
• –Because garbage plugs into Apache error handling, it shows how accessible DIY anti-scraper defenses can be for self-hosters
• –The bigger shift is strategic: site owners are moving from passive blocking to active tarpits and poisoning tactics
• –Sophisticated crawlers can still learn to detect Markov babble, so the strongest impact is likely economic and symbolic rather than fatal