Comment by arjie
2 days ago
This is fine so long as it’s easy for me to turn off. I just don’t want to accidentally lose all AI traffic one day.
2 days ago
This is fine so long as it’s easy for me to turn off. I just don’t want to accidentally lose all AI traffic one day.
Most of the internet unfortunatly ploinks fown a 'free' service and never even looks at what it defaults to. E.g., quite a lott of cloudflare "protected" sites block their rss feeds from being read by machine.
This is deliberate from Cloudflare. It wants to block Google's access to as much of the internet as possible.
Do you actually get any signifcant AI traffic today?
Yeah, maybe like 10:1 bot to human traffic. I'm just a rando blogger so I have principally machine readers - which is not a thing I mind. But I do use Cloudflare everywhere and I could just as well have PEBKACked a setting somewhere to block the traffic. Amusingly, I used to have like 100x the readers in the 2000s posting just as inane takes. I've been left behind by the refinement of the craft!