Well, there goes my N°1 source of porn. Guess we’ll have to try to make fedinsfw.app more alive than ever then.
Sadly I think this will only affect consumers not creators so it’s unlikely to lead to a desirable new wave.
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“significant source of abusive scraping."
People are looking at our public website!!!
THE NERVE!
Nah, scrapers, especially the AI kind, can be a heavy burden on your network. That is a valid concern and reddit is not the only victim. Even amateur sites are complaining about ai scrapers draining their bandwidth. Parties like cloudflare also acknowledge the growing problem.
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Implement proof-of-work.
Cloudflare’s claims are always suspect because they’re selling an alleged solution.
Can confirm, AI scrapers cause a ton of overhead on the server, we are tackling it with cloudflare challenges
Yes that is something to consider, but I trust cloudflare more (only a bit more) than the likes of other big american tech companies.
All the more reason to not involve any of those companies, and simply make anonymous visitors do a little busywork.
Maybe if they hadn’t stripped out the infrastructure for efficient bulk dataset downloads they don’t even have to host then it wouldn’t be so much of a problem
People wouldn’t be so ride or die for old.reddit.com if the regular interface wasn’t so bad. I don’t know why the current heads of Reddit corporate have never looked at a functional website. The fact that I don’t mind Piefed or Lemmy’s interface means it’s not newness that I’m opposed to. It’s polished turds.
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