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Ai scraping is an effective DDoS on the entire interent (pod.geraspora.de)

submitted 3 months ago by Irelephant@lemm.ee to c/techtakes@awful.systems

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[–] db0@lemmy.dbzer0.com 18 points 3 months ago (11 children)

It's a constant cat and mouse atm. Every week or so, we get another flood of scraping bots, which force us to triangulate which fucking DC IP range we need to start blocking now. If they ever start using residential proxies, we're fucked.

[–] Irelephant@lemm.ee 14 points 3 months ago (2 children)

I have a tiny neocities website which gets thousands of views a day, there is no way that anyone is viewing it often enough for that to be organic.

[–] db0@lemmy.dbzer0.com 13 points 3 months ago (1 children)

quickly, add some ad revenue :P

[–] 01189998819991197253 10 points 3 months ago

From ai vendors. Let them pay you for scraping you lol

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