[devmor]

> At least so long as my actions don't directly cause technical problems for the service operator.

But they do.

The reasoning you’re describing is not altruistic. It’s the same reasoning used by every AI scraper.

It’s the very reason I am paying a couple hundred dollars out of my own pocket every month to keep the websites of hundreds of small businesses and hobbyists online while I try to help them move to bigger cloud hosts, when I used to turn a small profit from it.

[fc417fc802]

> The reasoning you’re describing is not altruistic. It’s the same reasoning used by every AI scraper.

I think that's bad faith on your part. Clearly AI scrapers are aware of what they are doing and simply don't care. The entire purpose of my including the bit you quoted there was to explicitly exclude that sort of behavior.

[inigyou]

Maybe if you weren't using expensive anti-bot solutions people wouldn't use expensive bots.

[devmor]

That’s a great theory, unfortunately it’s defeated by the fact that I didn’t need to use anti-bot solutions until I was charged for 38,000x my normal ingress traffic in a single month by bot traffic.

[pocksuppet]

How much traffic was that?