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Re:ChatGPT won't let you type until Cloudflare reads your Re... by cruffle_duffle on Sunday March 29, 2026 @10:54PM (#47569897)
I bet dollars to doughnuts that 95% of the traffic is from Claude and ChatGPT desktop / mobile and not literal content scraping for training.
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Re:ChatGPT won't let you type until Cloudflare reads your Re... by crote on Monday March 30, 2026 @12:10AM (#47570306)
That wouldn't explain the 1000x increase in traffic for extremely obscure content, or seeing it download every single page on a classic web forum.
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Re:ChatGPT won't let you type until Cloudflare reads your Re... by duttish on Monday March 30, 2026 @02:52AM (#47571226)
And doing it over, and over, and over and over again. Because sure it didn't change in the last 8 years but maybe it's changed since yesterdays scrape?
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