16 Sep
2025
16 Sep
'25
9:39 p.m.
I set my server to limit requests per hour from the same IP to slow them
down, and I have code to detect bots and redirect their sessions to a low
impact catch page. It’s not that hard to control, but lately I have
noticed old tricks no longer work as well. AI arms race. But I always
believed publishing publicly would eventually cause the content to enter
the public domain.
On Tue, Sep 16, 2025 at 9:02 PM Cameron Kaiser via cctalk <
cctalk(a)classiccmp.org> wrote:
For those of you who run vintage
computing-related info sites, have you
noticed all of the LLM scraper activity? AI services are using the LLM
scrapers to populate their knowledge bases.
A massive, massive IP filter. There has been some collateral damage, but
unfortunately I don't think this is avoidable. They're a plague.
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