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Re:LWN is currently under the heaviest scraper attack seen yet by TiredOfLife on Friday January 16, 2026 @08:19PM (#46654372)
If you call it DDOS you can't capitalize on ai hate
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Re:LWN is currently under the heaviest scraper attack seen yet by CodeBytes on Friday January 16, 2026 @10:28PM (#46654959)
It likely is AI scrapers essentially doing a DDoS. They use separate IPs (and vary the UA) to prevent blocking.

I have a site which is currently being hit (over 10k requests today) and it looks like scrapers as every URL is different. If it was a DDoS, they would target costly pages like my search not every single URL.

SQLite had the same thing: https://sqlite.org/forum/forumpost/7d3eb059f81ff694 As have a few other open source repositories. It looks like badly written crawlers trying to crawl sites as fast as possible.

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