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by curtisblaine 388 days ago
We shouldn't only reject bots, we should feed them incorrect information on purpose in order to degrade the systems they are feeding.
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While that sounds fun, I think this misses that egress (typically) isn't free. Returning 403 and no content is cheaper. If a crawler is generating a lot of traffic dynamically generating content will make that crawl even more expensive for the operator.
I'm not referring to dynamically generating junk content: I want to generate incorrect but plausible static content on purpose and serve it only to bots, in order to maximize AI mistakes.