Re:Open research, stronger privacy: Making Firefox users har...
by locknitpicker on Thursday November 12, 2026 @07:37AM
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> To make your data more accessible AND reduce server load.
Wait, how do you reduce server load by allowing traffic from bots?
> More and more people are using AI, (...)
That's specious reasoning. Sites provide data for their users to consume, and in some cases their business model relies on real people consuming their content.
If you replace "bots" with "scrapers", which is a specific kind of bot, what conclusions do you draw?
> I'm afraid that if you don't at least start to consider how we might accommodate the bots, (...)
Wait, you think this problem is new? What do you think companies do with crawlers and scrapers?
Wait, how do you reduce server load by allowing traffic from bots?
> More and more people are using AI, (...)
That's specious reasoning. Sites provide data for their users to consume, and in some cases their business model relies on real people consuming their content.
If you replace "bots" with "scrapers", which is a specific kind of bot, what conclusions do you draw?
> I'm afraid that if you don't at least start to consider how we might accommodate the bots, (...)
Wait, you think this problem is new? What do you think companies do with crawlers and scrapers?