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Re:Cloudflare Introduces Default Blocking of A.I. Data Scrapers by sneak on Wednesday July 02, 2025 @05:42PM (#44449162)
How does a bot scraping your silly hobby sites for any purpose harm or negatively affect you in any way?
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Re:Cloudflare Introduces Default Blocking of A.I. Data Scrapers by pixl97 on Wednesday July 02, 2025 @07:54PM (#44450110)
Depends if they hit a site enough to make it cost something. It's not hard for bots to flood servers.
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Re:Cloudflare Introduces Default Blocking of A.I. Data Scrapers by Bender on Thursday July 03, 2025 @07:39AM (#44453972)
Only if they push me over my bandwidth limits but they can't do that if I just drop them on the floor.
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