AI companies cause most of traffic on forums

Re:AI companies cause most of traffic on forums by IncreasePosts on Tuesday December 31, 2024 @04:44PM (#42562087)

It seems better to put fake honeypot urls in robots.txt, and block any up that accesses those.

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Re:AI companies cause most of traffic on forums by Capricorn2481 on Tuesday December 31, 2024 @05:32PM (#42562347)

Ah I see

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Re:AI companies cause most of traffic on forums by trod1234 on Wednesday January 01, 2025 @06:50PM (#42570290)

Blocking will never work.

You need to impose cost. Set up QoS buckets, slow suspect connections down dramatically (almost to the point of timeout).

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