Projects with social or environmental impact are always a green light for me. I know Ecosia has a similar project. Were you inspired by them, or are you offering something on TOP [in terms of eco improvements]?
@busmark_w_nika appreciate it! Yes I was really inspired by ecosia.
I would say it's hard to offer something better than them in terms of eco improvements, but what sets us apart from ecosia is that you don't have to change anything in your daily routine. No need to change your search engine, which also means you can run idleforest together with ecosia :)
@sentry_co Your shared bandwidth enables companies to access websites from specific countries to gather public data they need (like product prices). For example, a company might need to see product prices on Amazon Spain. The websites are opened in a sessionless manner, ensuring no personal data is transmitted. We have strict rate limits and bandwidth checks to maintain your browsing experience, and all accessed domains are checked against a security blacklist.
@daniiba Fair enough. So it's a distributed scraping network. To avoid rate limits, geo-fencing etc. What happens if my IP gets banned from Amazon for bot activity? I think some clarity around side effects here would make this more white-hat. I laud the plant tree effort. But it's a gray area. So I think more clarity around what people sign up for would be the way to position this. Most people don't understand this kind of tech and its effects. # my 2 cents 😸
@sentry_co Hey, great question. We have ratelimits in place per user and per website to prevent these sideeffects, but its a good point and I will add that to our FAQ. We also have an explainer video that goes a bit more into detail on how our network works ;)
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Projects with social or environmental impact are always a green light for me. I know Ecosia has a similar project. Were you inspired by them, or are you offering something on TOP [in terms of eco improvements]?
Idleforest
@busmark_w_nika appreciate it! Yes I was really inspired by ecosia.
I would say it's hard to offer something better than them in terms of eco improvements, but what sets us apart from ecosia is that you don't have to change anything in your daily routine. No need to change your search engine, which also means you can run idleforest together with ecosia :)
I'm all in for planting trees. Onboarding now.
Idleforest
@sahithkrishna_an thank you! Let me know if you need any help :)
Oasi
At last, something useful!!
Idleforest
@mrrabbar thanks! :)
Congrats on the product - I'm loving it and sharing it with everyone I know!
Idleforest
@ruxandra_mazilu Thank you so much! Exactly what we need :)
@daniiba my pleasure! keep up the good work
DiffSense
Interesting concept. How does it work? What is the excess bandwidth used for?
Idleforest
@sentry_co Your shared bandwidth enables companies to access websites from specific countries to gather public data they need (like product prices). For example, a company might need to see product prices on Amazon Spain. The websites are opened in a sessionless manner, ensuring no personal data is transmitted. We have strict rate limits and bandwidth checks to maintain your browsing experience, and all accessed domains are checked against a security blacklist.
DiffSense
@daniiba Fair enough. So it's a distributed scraping network. To avoid rate limits, geo-fencing etc. What happens if my IP gets banned from Amazon for bot activity? I think some clarity around side effects here would make this more white-hat. I laud the plant tree effort. But it's a gray area. So I think more clarity around what people sign up for would be the way to position this. Most people don't understand this kind of tech and its effects. # my 2 cents 😸
Idleforest
@sentry_co Hey, great question. We have ratelimits in place per user and per website to prevent these sideeffects, but its a good point and I will add that to our FAQ.
We also have an explainer video that goes a bit more into detail on how our network works ;)