Bit weird to pin it on an age generation
magguzu
joined 1 week ago
Hate to say it but it honestly doesn't sound crazy hard to just block any instance that pops up. Yes it's whack a mole but if it's an automated script, it can just crawl through a backdoor instance and ban any domain it sees.
By your logic the *arr suite isn't self hosted either since they rely on metadata cache servers.
In fact Jellyfin relies on external services for their metadata too!