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[–] nutomic@lemmy.ml 11 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Cache size is limited and can usually only hold a limited number of most recently viewed pages. But these bots go through every single page on the website, even old ones that are never viewed by users. As they only send one request per page, caching doesnt really help.

[–] jagged_circle@feddit.nl -3 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Cache size is definitely not an issue, especially for these companies using cloudflare

[–] nutomic@lemmy.ml 5 points 1 day ago

It is an issue for the open source projects discussed in the article.