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Re:Crawlers impact the operations of the Wikimedia projects by Handy-Man on Wednesday April 02, 2025 @08:39AM (#43555971)
If it comes to it, just block all known IP blocks of cloud providers.
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Re:Crawlers impact the operations of the Wikimedia projects by thcipriani on Wednesday April 02, 2025 @11:10AM (#43557568)
There are likely a number of beneficial bots[0] running from cloud providers. And residential proxies are also widely available for very determined scrapers.

[0]: <https://stuartgeiger.com/talks/2013-08-03-wikisym-levee-brea...>

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