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Re:Cloudflare Introduces Default Blocking of A.I. Data Scrapers by 1oooqooq on Wednesday July 02, 2025 @07:41PM (#44450022)
it's called not having a vibecoded app that falls to pieces on public endpoints even before ngix ratelimit can kick in
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Re:Cloudflare Introduces Default Blocking of A.I. Data Scrapers by mattl on Wednesday July 02, 2025 @08:56PM (#44450502)
Nobody is talking about a vibe coded app. I want to block AI scrapers entirely.
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Re:Cloudflare Introduces Default Blocking of A.I. Data Scrapers by 1oooqooq on Friday July 04, 2025 @07:11AM (#44463457)
point is, why do you care if your site can handle the traffic?

there's no (malicious) bot detection that won't impact a portion of real users. accept that fact and just let it be.

poisoning data in ways that's obvious to the false positive user is a much better option.

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Re:Cloudflare Introduces Default Blocking of A.I. Data Scrapers by mattl on Friday July 04, 2025 @11:38AM (#44465468)
I really doubt any legit user is using a weird user agent and an IP address in the same AS as an AI slop crawler
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Re:Cloudflare Introduces Default Blocking of A.I. Data Scrapers by 1oooqooq on Friday July 04, 2025 @03:40PM (#44467284)
You'd be surprised. Your users too, but you wouldn't know because they will not be able to tell you.
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