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Re:AI companies cause most of traffic on forums by nabla9 on Monday December 30, 2024 @12:56PM (#42551721)
The linked article explains what happens when you block their IP.
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Re:AI companies cause most of traffic on forums by gs17 on Monday December 30, 2024 @01:13PM (#42551923)
For reference:

> If you try to rate-limit them, they’ll just switch to other IPs all the time. If you try to block them by User Agent string, they’ll just switch to a non-bot UA string (no, really).

It's really absurd that they seem to think this is acceptable.

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Re:AI companies cause most of traffic on forums by viraptor on Monday December 30, 2024 @03:10PM (#42552960)
Block the whole ASN in that case.
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Re:AI companies cause most of traffic on forums by therealdrag0 on Monday December 30, 2024 @06:35PM (#42554822)
What about adding fake sleeps?
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