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You could try different compression methods supported by browsers like brotli.

Otherwise you can also chain compression methods like: "Content-Encoding: gzip gzip".

Modern browsers support brotli or zstd, which is a lot better in terms of compression. Perhaps not as good for on-the-fly compression, but static assets can get a nice compression benefit out of it.

With toxic AI scrapers like Perplexity moving more and more to headless web browsers to bypass bot blocks, I think a brotli bomb (100GB of \0 can be compressed to about 78KiB with Brotli) would be quite effective.

Ah cool that site's robots.txt is still broken, just like it was when it first came up on HN...