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Thank You, AI

https://www.kraxel.org/blog/2026/01/thank-you-ai/
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Jaxkr•28m ago
The author of this post could solve their problem with Cloudflare or any of its numerous competitors.

Cloudflare will even do it for free.

rubiquity•23m ago
The scrapers should use some discretion. There are some rather obvious optimizations. Content that is not changing is less likely to change in the future.
isodev•22m ago
I think the point of the post was how something useless (AI) and its poorly implemented scrapers is wrecking havoc in a way that’s turning the internet into a digital desert.

That Cloudflare is trying to monetise “protection from AI” is just another grift in the sense that they can’t help themselves as a corp.

denkmoon•15m ago
Cool, I can take all my self hosted stuff and stick it behind centralised enterprise tech to solve a problem caused by enterprise tech. Why even bother?
fouc•13m ago
[delayed]
the_fall•12m ago
They don't. I'm using Cloudflare and 90%+ of the traffic I'm getting are still broken scrapers, a lot of them coming through residential proxies. I don't know what they block, but they're not very good at that. Or, to be more fair: I think the scrapers have gotten really good at what they do because there's real money to be made.
overgard•9m ago
I'm pretty sure scrapers aren't supposed to act as low key DOS attacks
CuriouslyC•23m ago
Does this author have a big pre-established audience or something? Struggling to understand why this is front-page worthy.
bibimsz•16m ago
the era of mourning has begun
fouc•15m ago
because he's unable to self-host git anymore because AI bots are hammering it to submit PRs.

self-hosting was originally a "right" we had upon gaining access to the internet in the 90s, it was the main point of the hyper text transfer protocol.

jaunt7632•13m ago
A healthy front page shouldn’t be a “famous people only” section. If only big names can show up there, it’s not discovery anymore, it’s just a popularity scoreboard.
ares623•12m ago
Well the fact that this supposed nobody is overwhelmed by AI scrapers should speak a lot about the issue no?
data-ottawa•11m ago
Does anyone know what's the deal with these scrapers, or why they're attributed to AI?

I would assume any halfway competent LLM driven scraper would see a mass of 404s and stop. If they're just collecting data to train LLMs, these seem like exceptionally poorly written and abusive scrapers written the normal way, but by more bad actors.

Are we seeing these scrapers using LLMs to bypass auth or run more sophisticated flows? I have not worked on bot detection the last few years, but it was very common for residential proxy based scrapers to hammer sites for years, so I'm wondering what's different.

Lerc•10m ago
I presume people have logs that indicate the source for them to place blame on AI scrapers. Is anybody making these available for analysis so we can see exactly who is doing this?

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