Block/troll all website scrapers with Nginx

default.conf

# This is a little bit of fun you can use to troll some scraper bots, with more than just a 404 page.
# Especially useful if you don't have Wordpress, and are tired of bots scraping over and over

location ~* /wp- {
    return 302 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dQw4w9WgXcQ;
}

# Else, for a deny:
location ~* /wp- {
    deny all;
}

# And for more fun, if you have wildcards enabled in DNS (So all subdomains point to your website), you can define websites manually, of course, and then have a redirect for those who go snooping.
# For example, https://hub.tcno.co exists and has a server record. For https://test.tcno.co/ you'll come across the default server (assuming there isn't another "default_server" already defined, and see the Nginx welcome page...
# Why not redirect somewhere more fun?
server {
    listen       80 default_server;
    listen       [::]:80 default_server;
    server_name   _;
    return 302 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dQw4w9WgXcQ;
}

server {
    
    listen 443 ssl http2 default_server;
    listen [::]:443 ssl http2 default_server;
    ssl_certificate /etc/letsencrypt/live/YOUR-WILDCARD-SUBDOMAIN-SSL-CERT-HERE/fullchain.pem;
    ssl_certificate_key /etc/letsencrypt/live/YOUR-WILDCARD-SUBDOMAIN-SSL-CERT-HERE/privkey.pem;
    include /etc/letsencrypt/options-ssl-nginx.conf;
    ssl_dhparam /etc/letsencrypt/ssl-dhparams.pem;

    server_name   _;
    return 302 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dQw4w9WgXcQ;
}

# Obviously the last one you can use return 302 https://tcno.co, or your real landing page to redirect people to where they 'should be'.
# This is obviously just for fun, and to screw with people who want to do some snooping.
# Of course, this is for fun. Don't take it too seriously.
# Though, you may get something from it :)