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

submitted 1 week ago by Irelephant@lemm.ee to c/techtakes@awful.systems

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[–] BlueMonday1984@awful.systems 8 points 1 week ago (1 children)

That opens you up to getting accused of click fraud, as AdNauseam found out the hard way but its worth it if you can squeeze some cash out of them before that happens.

[–] Sas@beehaw.org 8 points 1 week ago (1 children)

I mean, scraping bots would obviously obey robots.txt so those scraping - bots, i mean users can't be bots

[–] YourNetworkIsHaunted@awful.systems 2 points 3 days ago

Right? We have standards for this and the reasonable assumption is that if it doesn't respect robots.txt and otherwise looks like a user then it's a user. It can't be the responsibility of every single server admin to perfectly recognize what's a user and what's a bot run by a billion-dollar company doing a decent job pretending to be a user.