• zod000@lemmy.ml
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    16 hours ago

    Bullshit. This bot doesn’t identify itself as a bot and doesn’t rate limit itself to anything that would be an appropriate amount. We were seeing more traffic from this thing that all other crawlers combined.

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      9 hours ago

      Not rate limiting is bad. Hate them because of that, not because they’re a bot.

      Some bots are nice

      • Zangoose@lemmy.world
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        48 minutes ago

        Even if they were rate limiting they’re still just using the bot to train an AI. If it’s from a company there’s a 99% chance the bot is bad. I’m leaving 1% for whatever the Internet Archive (are they even a company tho?) is doing.