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by cyberax 247 days ago
You can thank AI bots for that.
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zenmac 247 days ago
Wow didn't realize it has comes to this. I guess the AI bots are ignoring the robots.txt now days huh, so just removing the index seems enough to stop the AI scrappers?
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cyberax 247 days ago
Yep. I have my own small gitweb server, and I was getting literally thousands requests per second from bots who try to crawl through all the links.
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