Re:Ban me at the IP level if you don't like me
by NegativeK on Thursday August 28, 2025 @10:55PM
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> I think maybe the current AI scraper traffic patterns are actually what "the internet being the internet" is from here forward
Kinda my point was that it's only the internet being the internet if we tolerate it. If enough people give a crap, the corporations doing it will have to knock it off.
Re:Ban me at the IP level if you don't like me
by kiitos on Friday August 29, 2025 @05:30PM
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i appreciate the sentiment but no amount of people giving a crap will ever impact the stuff we're talking about here, because the stuff we're talking about here is in no way governed or influenced by popular opinion or anything even remotely adjacent to popular opinion
if you wanna rage against the machine then more power to you but this line of thinking is dead on arrival in terms of outcome
but yeah the issue is that as long as you have something accessible to the public, it's ultimately your responsibility to deal with malicious/aggressive traffic
> At some point impacting my services with your business behavior goes from "it's just the internet being the internet" to willfully malicious.
I think maybe the current AI scraper traffic patterns are actually what "the internet being the internet" is from here forward