#aiscrapers — Public Fediverse posts on home.social

Taran Rampersad @[email protected] · 2026-02-26 · 20:31 UTC

https://www.kasada.io/stopping-unauthorized-ai-data-scraping/

#aiscrapers

Yehor 🇺🇦 @[email protected] · 2026-02-25 · 07:10 UTC

Traffic sources to my #SelfHosted #Gitea instance. You can clearly see where the real visits are and where the AI scrapers are. Last time I checked, they weren’t triggering any analytic events. They are definitely improving.

#aiscrapers #ai #llm #LLMs #aislop #homelab #selfhost #selfhosting

#selfhosted #gitea #aiscrapers #ai #llm #llms

Wulfy—Speaker to the machines @[email protected] · 2026-02-23 · 17:55 UTC

@grumpybozo

30% of web search traffic goes through #AI now.

The same folk who pontificate about lost web traffic will gleefully tell you they are blocking "#Aiscrapers"

#ai #aiscrapers

DoomsdaysCW @[email protected] · 2026-02-20 · 16:37 UTC

#AIBots may lead to the end of the internet as we know it

In recent weeks, #OpenDemocracy’s website has been repeatedly brought down by an army of bots. We’re not the only ones

Matthew Linares
20 February 2026

Excerpt: "Slater explained that 'the traffic often arrives through anonymous residential IPs', referring to residential proxy networks that route internet traffic through intermediary servers using IP addresses assigned by internet service providers to real homeowners. This, he said, makes it 'hard to distinguish ‘normal users’ from automated collection'. [That's not right and needs to be changed!!!]

" 'We're being forced into permanent defence mode. #ResidentialProxyNetworks let #AIScrapers hide in plain sight, rotate identities, and extract data at scale. That shifts real costs onto projects that exist to serve people, not feed training pipelines."

#aibots #opendemocracy #residentialproxynetworks #aiscrapers #aisucks #ai

DoomsdaysCW @[email protected] · 2026-02-20 · 16:37 UTC

#AIBots may lead to the end of the internet as we know it

In recent weeks, #OpenDemocracy’s website has been repeatedly brought down by an army of bots. We’re not the only ones

Matthew Linares
20 February 2026

Excerpt: "Slater explained that 'the traffic often arrives through anonymous residential IPs', referring to residential proxy networks that route internet traffic through intermediary servers using IP addresses assigned by internet service providers to real homeowners. This, he said, makes it 'hard to distinguish ‘normal users’ from automated collection'. [That's not right and needs to be changed!!!]

" 'We're being forced into permanent defence mode. #ResidentialProxyNetworks let #AIScrapers hide in plain sight, rotate identities, and extract data at scale. That shifts real costs onto projects that exist to serve people, not feed training pipelines."

#aibots #opendemocracy #residentialproxynetworks #aiscrapers #aisucks #ai

DoomsdaysCW @[email protected] · 2026-02-20 · 16:37 UTC

#AIBots may lead to the end of the internet as we know it

In recent weeks, #OpenDemocracy’s website has been repeatedly brought down by an army of bots. We’re not the only ones

Matthew Linares
20 February 2026

Excerpt: "Slater explained that 'the traffic often arrives through anonymous residential IPs', referring to residential proxy networks that route internet traffic through intermediary servers using IP addresses assigned by internet service providers to real homeowners. This, he said, makes it 'hard to distinguish ‘normal users’ from automated collection'. [That's not right and needs to be changed!!!]

" 'We're being forced into permanent defence mode. #ResidentialProxyNetworks let #AIScrapers hide in plain sight, rotate identities, and extract data at scale. That shifts real costs onto projects that exist to serve people, not feed training pipelines."

#aibots #opendemocracy #residentialproxynetworks #aiscrapers #aisucks #ai

DoomsdaysCW @[email protected] · 2026-02-20 · 16:37 UTC

#AIBots may lead to the end of the internet as we know it

In recent weeks, #OpenDemocracy’s website has been repeatedly brought down by an army of bots. We’re not the only ones

Matthew Linares
20 February 2026

Excerpt: "Slater explained that 'the traffic often arrives through anonymous residential IPs', referring to residential proxy networks that route internet traffic through intermediary servers using IP addresses assigned by internet service providers to real homeowners. This, he said, makes it 'hard to distinguish ‘normal users’ from automated collection'. [That's not right and needs to be changed!!!]

" 'We're being forced into permanent defence mode. #ResidentialProxyNetworks let #AIScrapers hide in plain sight, rotate identities, and extract data at scale. That shifts real costs onto projects that exist to serve people, not feed training pipelines."

#techbros #bigtech #artificialintelligence #technews #websites #internet

DoomsdaysCW @[email protected] · 2026-02-20 · 16:37 UTC

#AIBots may lead to the end of the internet as we know it

In recent weeks, #OpenDemocracy’s website has been repeatedly brought down by an army of bots. We’re not the only ones

Matthew Linares
20 February 2026

Excerpt: "Slater explained that 'the traffic often arrives through anonymous residential IPs', referring to residential proxy networks that route internet traffic through intermediary servers using IP addresses assigned by internet service providers to real homeowners. This, he said, makes it 'hard to distinguish ‘normal users’ from automated collection'. [That's not right and needs to be changed!!!]

" 'We're being forced into permanent defence mode. #ResidentialProxyNetworks let #AIScrapers hide in plain sight, rotate identities, and extract data at scale. That shifts real costs onto projects that exist to serve people, not feed training pipelines."

#aibots #opendemocracy #residentialproxynetworks #aiscrapers #aisucks #ai

DansLeRuSH ᴱᶰ @[email protected] · 2026-02-16 · 15:44 UTC

Happy to see some updates on AI.ROBOTS.TXT : « A list of AI agents and robots to block » 🤖 🚫

› https://github.com/ai-robots-txt/ai.robots.txt

#NoAI #DNS #AIScrapers

#noai #dns #aiscrapers

Webrocker @[email protected] · 2026-02-12 · 19:59 UTC

Webspace Invaders - Matthias Ott

(…) In their hunger for data to train their large language models, companies from all over the world are systematically harvesting every word I’ve ever published, feeding it into their language models to keep them fresh – and the side effect, the collateral damage, is that Kevin in Montreal now can’t read my articles because my hosting provider decided the solution was to block Canada and half the rest of the world.
I sat there staring at those logs for a while. The irony wasn’t lost on me. This is my little corner of the web. My writing. With my weird little style mixer up there in the top right. And now it is simultaneously being strip-mined by AI companies and effectively made inaccessible to actual humans around the world who might want to read it.
This is where we are in 2026. (…) Yes, the AI companies need to do better. They actually should throttle their scraping to reasonable levels. They actually should respect the limited resources of small sites. They actually should develop industry standards that don’t externalize costs onto individuals who are just trying to share their work. (…) matthiasott.com

I can't help but getting really really angry about all this and what it does to the web I used to love.

#ai #aiScrapers #collateraldamage #exploitation #otemporaomores #Web

https://webrocker.de/?p=29765

#ai #aiscrapers #collateraldamage #exploitation #otemporaomores #web

Max Resing @[email protected] · 2025-11-18 · 07:37 UTC

Looks like a new player leads the #ipv4games leaderboard. Who else, but a #proxy provider, just followed by another one of it's kind. Not sure if this would be the best advertisement for a company you'd like to appear as "legit".

#IPv4 #threatintel #DDoS #AIScrapers

#ipv4games #proxy #ipv4 #threatintel #ddos #aiscrapers

🅺🅸🅼 🆂🅲🅷🆄🅻🆉:~$ ▓ @[email protected] · 2025-11-06 · 09:46 UTC

Hmm chatgpt ser ud til at holde fobindelsen til min hjemmeside i live meeeeget længe. Til sammenligning er besøg fra copilot og perplexity normal <1sek.
#webstats #AIscrapers #weird #danskertrut

#webstats #aiscrapers #weird #danskertrut

Crest of Light @[email protected] · 2025-07-09 · 23:36 UTC

Wow, I just read a doozy of a post that had some understandable takes...Also, a very unreasonable and unhinged opinion. They called Anubis, a form of protection against AI Scrapers, malware!

It was the hottest take possible (one that seemed fueled by consuming 80 tons of Scotch Bonnet chili peppers). I was flabbergasted by it, the creator sarcastically posted this: https://pony.social/@cadey/114797409617913047

This is the blog post the FSF in my opinion, foolishly calling Anubis malware: https://www.fsf.org/blogs/sysadmin/our-small-team-vs-millions-of-bots

My people in Linux Salvation...This is wild, as usual, I just found out about this after watching a Brodie video about it. ROFL

#Anubis #AIScrapers #FreeSoftware

#anubis #aiscrapers #freesoftware

DoomsdaysCW @[email protected] · 2025-01-29 · 17:09 UTC

#AI haters build #tarpits to trap and trick #AIScrapers that ignore robots.txt

Attackers explain how an anti-spam defense became an AI weapon.

Ashley Belanger – Jan 28, 2025 4:16 P

https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2025/01/ai-haters-build-tarpits-to-trap-and-trick-ai-scrapers-that-ignore-robots-txt/
#NoAI #NoNukesForAI

#ai #tarpits #aiscrapers #noai #nonukesforai

DoomsdaysCW @[email protected] · 2025-01-29 · 17:09 UTC

#AI haters build #tarpits to trap and trick #AIScrapers that ignore robots.txt