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fattyfoods@feddit.nl to Open Source@lemmy.ml · 1 day ago

The Open-Source Software Saving the Internet From AI Bot Scrapers

www.404media.co

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The Open-Source Software Saving the Internet From AI Bot Scrapers

www.404media.co

fattyfoods@feddit.nl to Open Source@lemmy.ml · 1 day ago
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Anubis, which block AI scrapers from scraping websites to death, has been downloaded almost 200,000 times.
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    the scrapers ignore robots.txt. It doesn’t really ban them - it just asks them not to access things, but they are programmed by assholes.

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