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rant against scraper bots, nothing useful for ya probably
The damn AI scrapper bots are ruining more and more of the internet.
swcombine.com is the latest small community affected (that I'm a personally aware of)
Fucking thousand-fold increase in traffic. And you can't do much about it.
I wish the European commission would go two orders of magnitude beyond what they occasionally do well, impose strict limits on scraping, and threaten to just shut down the company and put the C-level in prison, for repeat offenders.
Some managers would probably still be willing to risk stuff for money, but I don't think VC funds would be willing to risk their billion dollar investments.
But, that's just utopia.