• BlackEco@lemmy.blackeco.com
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    14 hours ago

    Also it doesn’t respect robots.txt (the file that tells bots whether or not a given page can be accessed) unlike most AI scrapping bots.

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      10 hours ago

      My personal website that primarily functions as a front end to my home server has been getting BEAT by these stupid web scrapers. Every couple of days the server is unusable because some web scraper demanded every single possible page and crashed the damn thing

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        7 hours ago

        I do the same thing, and I’ve noticed my modem has been absolutely bricked probably 3-4 times this month. I wonder if this is why.

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          Thankfully they haven’t bricked my modem yet, but it’s possibly worth looking into