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Re:Cloudflare Introduces Default Blocking of A.I. Data Scrapers by trollbridge on Wednesday July 02, 2025 @09:56PM (#44450888)
I use Cloudflare and edge caching, so it doesn’t really affect me, but the amount of LLM scraping of various static assets for apps I host is ridiculous.

We’re talking a JavaScript file of strings to respond like “login failed”, “reset your password” just over and over again. Hundreds of fetches a day, often from what appears to be the same system.

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Re:Cloudflare Introduces Default Blocking of A.I. Data Scrapers by SchemaLoad on Wednesday July 02, 2025 @10:14PM (#44450982)
Turn on the the Cloudflare tarpit. When it detects LLM scrapers it starts generating infinite AI slop pages to feed the scrapers. Ruining their dataset and keeping them off your actual site.
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