Yep: Google alternative that shares revenue with creators

Re:Yep: Google alternative that shares revenue with creators... by icehawk on Friday June 03, 2022 @09:52PM (#31616097)

As a network operator that runs a number of websites I'm honestly one step away from null routing all of their traffic. I'm constantly seeing their bots and as far as I know it's not helping anything.

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Re:Yep: Google alternative that shares revenue with creators... by bpicolo on Friday June 03, 2022 @10:50PM (#31616484)

They represented something like 30% of traffic at a couple places I worked. Their bots are not well behaved

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Re:Yep: Google alternative that shares revenue with creators... by dazc on Saturday June 04, 2022 @02:31AM (#31617622)

What's stopping you, they crawl your site day and night and sell the data they have harvested at a vast profit. They don't even respect robots.txt.

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Re:Yep: Google alternative that shares revenue with creators... by botsbreeder on Saturday June 04, 2022 @02:55AM (#31617731)

AhrefsBot respects robots.txt. Details are here: https://ahrefs.com/robot

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Re:Yep: Google alternative that shares revenue with creators... by blitzar on Saturday June 04, 2022 @06:16AM (#31618727)

My parents say I am a very good boy too.

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Re:Yep: Google alternative that shares revenue with creators... by agmater on Saturday June 04, 2022 @11:50AM (#31621783)

If you don't believe the CEO you can always just IP block them. In my experience they respect "User-agent: * Disallow: /".

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Re:Yep: Google alternative that shares revenue with creators... by dazc on Saturday June 04, 2022 @08:29AM (#31619542)

Blocking the user agent in my WAF is the only thing that actually worked. So, I'm sure you're right and I am just a random outlying case.

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