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Comment by cyberax

1 day ago

You can thank AI bots for that.

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zenmac  19 hours ago

Wow didn't realize it has comes to this. I guess the AI bots are ignoring the robots.txt now days huh, so just removing the index seems enough to stop the AI scrappers?

  • cyberax  14 hours ago

    Yep. I have my own small gitweb server, and I was getting literally thousands requests per second from bots who try to crawl through all the links.

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