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Ai scraping is an effective DDoS on the entire interent (pod.geraspora.de)

submitted 2 days ago by Irelephant@lemm.ee to c/techtakes@awful.systems

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[–] MonkderVierte@lemmy.ml 7 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Count them as ad visits, to make big tech pay for better hardware or line?

[–] BlueMonday1984@awful.systems 7 points 1 day ago (1 children)

That opens you up to getting accused of click fraud, as AdNauseam found out the hard way but its worth it if you can squeeze some cash out of them before that happens.

[–] Sas@beehaw.org 6 points 1 day ago

I mean, scraping bots would obviously obey robots.txt so those scraping - bots, i mean users can't be bots