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irelephant [he/him]🍭@lemm.ee to TechTakes@awful.systemsEnglish · 1 day ago

Ai scraping is an effective DDoS on the entire interent

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Ai scraping is an effective DDoS on the entire interent

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irelephant [he/him]🍭@lemm.ee to TechTakes@awful.systemsEnglish · 1 day ago
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Excerpt from a message I just posted in a #diaspora team internal f...
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Excerpt from a message I just posted in a #diaspora team internal forum category. The context here is that I recently get pinged by slowness/load spikes on the diaspora* project web infrastructure (Discourse, Wiki, the project website, ...), and looking at the traffic logs makes me impressively angry. In the last 60 days, the diaspora* web assets received 11.3 million requests. That equals to 2.19 req/s - which honestly isn't that much. I mean, it's more than your average personal blog, but nothing that my infrastructure shouldn't be able to handle. However, here's what's grinding my fucking gears. Looking at the top user agent statistics, there are the leaders: 2.78 million requests - or 24.6% of all traffic - is coming from Mozilla/5.0 AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko; compatible; GPTBot/1.2; +https://openai.com/gptbot). 1.69 million reuqests - 14.9% - Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; Intel Mac OS X 10_10_1) AppleWebKit/600.2.5 (KHTML, like Gecko) Version/8.0.2 Safari/600.2.5 (Amazonb...
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    Count them as ad visits, to make big tech pay for better hardware or line?

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      That opens you up to getting accused of click fraud, as AdNauseam found out the hard way but its worth it if you can squeeze some cash out of them before that happens.

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        I mean, scraping bots would obviously obey robots.txt so those scraping - bots, i mean users can’t be bots

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