#botdefense — Public Fediverse posts
Live and recent posts from across the Fediverse tagged #botdefense, aggregated by home.social.
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🚨 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! 🦸♂️✨
https://travellemming.com/perspectives/ftc-letter-google-censors-indie-publishers-with-ai/ #Google #BotDefense #HeroicWork #HackerNews #ngated -
🚨 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! 🦸♂️✨
https://travellemming.com/perspectives/ftc-letter-google-censors-indie-publishers-with-ai/ #Google #BotDefense #HeroicWork #HackerNews #ngated -
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? -
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.
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#Reddit mods fear #spam overload as #BotDefense leaves “antagonistic” Reddit | Ars Technic
@arstechnica https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2023/07/reddit-mods-fear-spam-overload-as-botdefense-leaves-antagonistic-reddit/ -
Oh dang.
Reddit finna learn.
#Reddit mods fear spam overload as #BotDefense leaves “antagonistic” Reddit
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Oh dang.
Reddit finna learn.
#Reddit mods fear spam overload as #BotDefense leaves “antagonistic” Reddit