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  1. 🚨 ALERT: The #AI #overlords have begun their grand plan by... *checks notes*... making you click a checkbox. 🤖🙄 Clearly, Google's dastardly plot involves perfecting the art of #CAPTCHA, while you valiantly defend your site from the imaginary bot invasion. Keep up the heroic work! 🦸‍♂️✨
    travellemming.com/perspectives #Google #BotDefense #HeroicWork #HackerNews #ngated

  2. 🚨 ALERT: The #AI #overlords have begun their grand plan by... *checks notes*... making you click a checkbox. 🤖🙄 Clearly, Google's dastardly plot involves perfecting the art of #CAPTCHA, while you valiantly defend your site from the imaginary bot invasion. Keep up the heroic work! 🦸‍♂️✨
    travellemming.com/perspectives #Google #BotDefense #HeroicWork #HackerNews #ngated

  3. AI crawlers take content without sending visitors — just costs, no return.
    Search engines gave traffic. AI gives nothing.

    Ad models are failing.
    Time for micropayments — or a data strike?

    #AI #websustainability #micropayments #botdefense

  4. I’ve stopped relying on blocklists for ‘bad’ bots based on user-agent strings. They’re too easy to fake.

    Further, proper robots.txt doesn’t mean much either — I keep one more out of principle than effect.

    #bots #botdefense #enshitification

  5. To reduce excessive automated traffic, anonymous access to vici.org is now rate-limited. Logged-in users are not affected.
    Want full access? Create an account — it’s free.
    #botdefense