[firecall]

Yep, I did this for a while.

The TikTok Byte Dance / Byte Spider bots were making millions of image requests from my site.

Over and over again and they would not stop.

I eventually got Cloudinary to block all the relevant user agents, and initially just totally blocked Singapore.

It’s very abusive on the part of these bot running AI scraping companies!

If I hadn’t been using the kind and generous Cloudinary, I could have been stuck with some seriously expensive hosting bills!

Nowadays I just block all AI bots with Cloudflare and be done with it!