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Re:AI companies cause most of traffic on forums by aaroninsf on Monday December 30, 2024 @02:44PM (#42552700)
I instigated `user-agent`-based rate limiting for exactly this reason, exactly this case.

These bots were crushing our search infrastructure (which is tightly coupled to our front end).

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