From: worldoff9908@gmail.com   
      
   R Daneel Olivaw wrote:   
   > Have you seen   
   > https://tech.slashdot.org/story/25/12/05/1940241/cloudflare-sa   
   s-it-blocked-416-billion-ai-scraping-requests-in-5-months   
   > ?  Specifically "The search giant [Google] combined its search and AI   
   > crawler into one".   
      
   I haven't, but I'm not surprised.  But there are plenty of other AI   
   crawlers out there that are identifiable enough to be worth the effort   
   of blocking.   
      
   For what it's worth, I see that some sites are resorting to using   
   Cloudflare and CAPTCHAs to stem the performance issues caused by AI   
   crawlers, and I'm finding the the Cloudflare scripting is something that   
   I can't get through with in Seamonkey.  One of the sites I visit   
   frequently is askwoody.com, and it's gotten to be that I have to use a   
   different browser to see their content.   
      
   In the case of AskWoody, they report that the volume of AI scraping is   
   enough to be akin to a DoS attack.  My small-scale dropping of   
   connections doesn't really work for what they're seeing, where they're   
   getting thousands of hits per second, and thus, they've had to resort to   
   Cloudflare to insulate themselves from the barrage.   
      
   Smith   
      
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