Comment on Aggressive AI scrapers are making it kinda suck to run wikis
OptimusPrimeDownfall@discuss.tchncs.de 3 weeks agoThe problem is that you can’t block all scraping. The scrapers make their bots look like regular traffic, so even if you block all known scrapers, there will be tons that just look like humans visiting your site.
delmain@beehaw.org 3 weeks ago
Collaborative list of basic IP blocks of known scraper hosts.
Kissaki@beehaw.org 3 weeks ago
They rent IPs, they can look like residential IPs.
I don’t know how these IP services work, but blocking them seems like blocking AWS - suddenly you didn’t just block telegram but various websites and services don’t work anymore.
OptimusPrimeDownfall@discuss.tchncs.de 3 weeks ago
changing IPs is very easy.