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Re:I protect my forgejo instance from AI Web Crawlers by spockz on Monday December 22, 2025 @04:16AM (#46352473)
Maybe it is fast enough but my objection is mostly due to the gross inefficiency of crawlers. Requesting downloads of whole repositories over and over, leading to storing these archives on disk wasting CPU cycles to create them and storage space to retain them, and bandwidth to sent them over the wire. Add this to the gross power consumption of AI and hogging of physical compute hardware, and it is easy to see “AI” as wasteful.

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