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Now that we know AI bots will ignore robots.txt and churn residential IP addresses to scrape websites, does anyone know of a method to block them that doesn't entail handing over your website to Cloudflare?

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[–] drkt@scribe.disroot.org 4 points 16 hours ago

doesn’t this just mean the bots hammer your server looping forever?

Yes

How much processing do you do of those forms

None

It costs me nothing to have bots spending bandwidth on me because I'm not on a metered connection and electricity is cheap enough that the tiny overhead of processing their requests might amount to a dollar or two per year.