I don’t blame them, I also think the pay wall stops AI from stealing everything as well. I just wish they had a $5 tier. It seemed to be one of the big comments on the video, and I agree with it. Sure its less, but I would imagine the extra people gained from that tier would certainly help since its lost money at the moment.
Comment on A big announcement from Skill Up (new website)
TastyWheat@lemmy.world 2 days ago
Me: scrolling looks good! L Website: This section is available to paid supporters only. Me: …
HeyJoe@lemmy.world 2 days ago
pirateKaiser@sh.itjust.works 1 day ago
As someone who works for a paywallled website, that’s hardly a deterrent. If the site is important enough, they will pay for accounts and crawl until the server melts
HeyJoe@lemmy.world 1 day ago
Is there any true way to block it? Does the crawler literally use the same access (443) as us to scrape content? If so, the only other thing I can think of is to block all known IP’s that AI crap originates from, but that sounds daunting and impossible to catch everything.
pirateKaiser@sh.itjust.works 14 hours ago
There’s no fullproof way. Even if you somehow block every crawling automation, there’s still puppeteering where the bot behaves just like a normal user.
LunchEnjoyer@lemmy.world 2 days ago
Its viewer funded yes. As described in the video parts of the website will be locked for paid supporters. Iml a solid thing to support these days of AI piss everywhere.
GreyCat@lemmy.world 1 day ago
That’s in the home page yeah, it’s makde kind of weirdly yea, with a sorft of fake “pop-up”. But you can still access the News and Features without limitations I think… ?
im_john_here@programming.dev 2 days ago
How else do you expect them to pay for something that’s not driven by ads or selling the day-to-day to AI?