From: not@telling.you.invalid   
      
   D Finnigan  wrote:   
   > https://tech.slashdot.org/story/25/03/26/016244/open-source-de   
   s-say-ai-crawlers-dominate-traffic-forcing-blocks-on-entire-countries   
   >   
   > They're abusing everyone. If you have a web site, don't allow it to be   
   > abused this way.   
      
   On the other hand I run websites on the cheapest VPSs available and   
   they have no load problem without any robots.txt rules to block   
   bots let alone active blocking. Yet solutions like the "Anubis"   
   proof-of-work thing mentioned in the link will require Javascript   
   which blocks the JS-less web browsers I like to use for browsing   
   other people's websites (and FF with NoScript too unless I decide   
   to allow the random JS).   
      
   So basically those websites are making their slow code on the   
   server _my_ problem by forcing me to do bot-tests which I fail   
   (sometimes in Firefox even with NoScript disabled too!).   
      
   Don't abuse _users_ that way, just to block bots from your   
   too-slow website!   
      
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