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If you try to rate-limit them, they’ll just switch to other IPs all the time. If you try to block them by User Agent string, they’ll just switch to a non-bot UA string (no, really). This is literally a DDoS on the entire internet.
Wrong. Annas Archive doesn’t Accept Uploads directly themselves (at least <10.000), and they recommend STC too.
To upload academic papers, please also (in addition to Library Genesis) upload to STC Nexus. They are the best shadow library for new papers.
There are already Torrents with the raw data and they’ve used IPFS in the past, but decided it was not ready https://annas-archive.org/torrents (They pool multiple shadow libraries)
NewPipe or Patched YouTube App using ReVanced Manager