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Open Source devs say AI crawlers dominate traffic, forcing blocks on entire countries
(arstechnica.com)
this post was submitted on 26 Mar 2025
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What if we start throtling them so we make them waste time? Like, we could throttle contiguous requests, so if anyone is hitting the server aggresively they'd get slowed down.
They can just interleave requests to different hosts. Honestly, someone spidering the whole Web probably should be doing that regardless.