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Re:I posted to HN, and then my website was flooded with AI b... by h43z on Tuesday October 13, 2026 @06:11PM (#50079639)
I'm running some tests currently

https://deep.43z.one (how deep bots will crawl)

https://stalling.43z.one (how long they'll keep the connection open)

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Re:I posted to HN, and then my website was flooded with AI b... by robotmay on Tuesday October 13, 2026 @06:51PM (#50080064)
Ooh that’s fun! I’ll have to add some stats like this to mine too. Anthropic keeping connections alive for 2 hours is wild. I don’t think they fall into my trap as I believe they respect robots.txt, which is at least an improvement on Meta.
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