Posted: 2019-09-20 14:38:26
Edited: 2019-09-20 14:38:44
Hi sememsquirter
It seems like your browser ran straight into our own inhouse developed anti-web-ripping system. Unfortunately a few bad apples had to spoil it for the rest of us. On a weekly basis, some pleb somewhere thinks he's got it all figured out and downloads some freeware site-ripping software. They then attempt "spider" the entire website stealing our content. They all realise very quickly this is a waste of time because of the anti-web-ripping system. They too just get a bunch of "image loading" pages, and it is designed like that on purpose.
Our content is in high demand because it takes an extraordinary amount of effort to produce consistent, high quality photos. We owe it to every single advertiser to do whatever we can to protect their photos. A lot of time these stolen/ripped content ends up on fake escort websites used solely to extort money from unsuspecting punters.
I don't want to go into too much detail of how the system works (as this would give site-rippers ideas on how to bypass the system). At it's basis, we looked how many pictures the normal ESA user would open in a 15-20 minute period. We then tripled that amount to be sure. If anyone opens more than that amount, the system will block any further requests and would simply refuse to talk to their browser/ripping software.
If you open a profile, and then middle-click, say, 20 photo sets (which would open 20 tabs), or if you open 20 different profiles, and then click "Slideshow" on all 20 of them in rapid succession, you would appear like a site ripper and the system will stop serving pictures to your browser.
We will compromise a little from our side and we will increase the limit by another 15%, but that is the maximum that we're willing to go. We have take steps to protect the photos of the advertisers. We ask that you please compromise a little from your side by not opening too many picture sets too fast. Our business model is not to provide thousands of picture sets in a rapid fashion, our main aim is the connect the punter with the advertiser. We measure success by how many phone calls an advertiser gets, and not how many old picture-sets we serve.
In a perfect worlds we would be more than happy to serve as many pictures to you as fast as possible, but there is a reason for this picture block system.
Regards
Matt
Esa Support