Pro@programming.dev to Technology@programming.devEnglish · edit-24 months agoCodeberg: army of AI crawlers are extremely slowing us; AI crawlers learned how to solve the Anubis challenges.i.imgur.comimagemessage-square116linkfedilinkarrow-up1708arrow-down12file-text
arrow-up1706arrow-down1imageCodeberg: army of AI crawlers are extremely slowing us; AI crawlers learned how to solve the Anubis challenges.i.imgur.comPro@programming.dev to Technology@programming.devEnglish · edit-24 months agomessage-square116linkfedilinkfile-text
minus-squaredeur@feddit.nllinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up3arrow-down9·5 months agoIf it is scraping it is scraping. If the endpoint canonically is intended to be a machine readable endpoint (do not respond with “but html is machine-readable” as you know that is not the point) it is not. Your scraper would be harmful.
minus-squaregrue@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up9·5 months agoBut html is machine-readable and that absolutely is the point! Never forget what they stole from us.
minus-squareFizzyOrange@programming.devlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up6·5 months agoSo search engines shouldn’t exist? This is absurdly simplistic.
If it is scraping it is scraping. If the endpoint canonically is intended to be a machine readable endpoint (do not respond with “but html is machine-readable” as you know that is not the point) it is not. Your scraper would be harmful.
But html is machine-readable and that absolutely is the point!
Never forget what they stole from us.
So search engines shouldn’t exist? This is absurdly simplistic.