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Open Source devs say AI crawlers dominate traffic, forcing blocks on entire countries (arstechnica.com)
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[-] snowe@programming.dev 4 points 1 week ago

about 50% of traffic to programming.dev is bots who have marked their user-agents as such. I'm pretty confident the actual number is higher, but haven't spent time validating.

[-] JustFudgnWork@sh.itjust.works 2 points 1 week ago

WOW. Source for this?

[-] RonSijm@programming.dev 3 points 1 week ago

Snowe is sysadmin of programming.dev...

So source: Snowe

[-] JustFudgnWork@sh.itjust.works 1 points 6 days ago

Oh thanks lol

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