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by VladVladikoff 436 days ago
I’ve dealt with AI crawlers. I’ve even seen 8 different AI crawlers at once. And yes some have been very aggressive, and I have even blocked some who are particularly bad (ignoring robots.txt rules). But their traffic is a tiny fraction of what my infrastructure sees on a regular basis. A well optimized platform, with good caching, shouldn’t really struggle with a few crawlers.