Bot countermeasures impact on the quality of life on the web
I think enough
has already been written
on the subject of fighting against rogue bots
(today mostly for LLM scraping)
that are ruining the web,
not only by strip-mining human creativity and turning it into average slop,
but especially by taking down hosting infrastructure
through uncoordinated crawling that turns into DDoS.And it's not only the "bad LLM" companies that engage in this;
even Google is slamming anything alive that happens to have its HTTP endpoint open!Thus, many have started fight...
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