#crawlers — Public Fediverse posts
Live and recent posts from across the Fediverse tagged #crawlers, aggregated by home.social.
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ICYMI: US sends 53.5% of global bot traffic, Decodo analysis finds: Iran runs 81.4% bots at home while retail absorbs 13% of automated requests, a split that now decides which crawlers reach product pages and which get shut out. https://ppc.land/us-sends-53-5-of-global-bot-traffic-decodo-analysis-finds/ #BotTraffic #DigitalMarketing #Crawlers #SEO #Automation
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ICYMI: US sends 53.5% of global bot traffic, Decodo analysis finds: Iran runs 81.4% bots at home while retail absorbs 13% of automated requests, a split that now decides which crawlers reach product pages and which get shut out. https://ppc.land/us-sends-53-5-of-global-bot-traffic-decodo-analysis-finds/ #BotTraffic #DigitalMarketing #Crawlers #SEO #Automation
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September 15, 2026, #Cloudflare will set updated defaults for new domains: #bots classified as #Training or #Agent will be #blocked on pages that display ads, and Search will remain allowed. #Crawlers that combine Search&Training will also be blocked. #AI
https://developers.cloudflare.com/bots/additional-configurations/block-ai-bots/
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September 15, 2026, #Cloudflare will set updated defaults for new domains: #bots classified as #Training or #Agent will be #blocked on pages that display ads, and Search will remain allowed. #Crawlers that combine Search&Training will also be blocked. #AI
https://developers.cloudflare.com/bots/additional-configurations/block-ai-bots/
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“AI webpage #crawlers are now being served their very own #ads that ordinary visitors never see, with one firm's boss openly describing a strategy to influence what #chatbots say about #brands. The next time you ask Claude about where to bank, its answer may have been influenced by this #BotTargeted content.
We only have one documented example so far, and that's Time serving #AIOnly ads to selected AI crawlers, as spotted by Germany based freelance software developer #VincentSchmalbach.In a Wednesday blog post, Schmalbach detailed how he found #sponsored content embedded in #markdown versions of some Time pages that are served to AI crawlers but not ordinary browsers. Those pages also contained #advertisings tags from #AdTech vendor Mobian ahead of extensive #FAQs for online-only bank Ally. The FAQs include brand "facts," such as the number of fee-free ATMs associated with the branchless bank, alongside claims that Ally is "the only bank built for life today," putting it in "a category of one."
AI poisoning with advertising.
#AI / #advert <https://www.theregister.com/ai-and-ml/2026/08/05/time-magazine-has-a-separate-version-of-its-website-with-ads-only-ai-can-see/5283640>
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“AI webpage #crawlers are now being served their very own #ads that ordinary visitors never see, with one firm's boss openly describing a strategy to influence what #chatbots say about #brands. The next time you ask Claude about where to bank, its answer may have been influenced by this #BotTargeted content.
We only have one documented example so far, and that's Time serving #AIOnly ads to selected AI crawlers, as spotted by Germany based freelance software developer #VincentSchmalbach.In a Wednesday blog post, Schmalbach detailed how he found #sponsored content embedded in #markdown versions of some Time pages that are served to AI crawlers but not ordinary browsers. Those pages also contained #advertisings tags from #AdTech vendor Mobian ahead of extensive #FAQs for online-only bank Ally. The FAQs include brand "facts," such as the number of fee-free ATMs associated with the branchless bank, alongside claims that Ally is "the only bank built for life today," putting it in "a category of one."
AI poisoning with advertising.
#AI / #advert <https://www.theregister.com/ai-and-ml/2026/08/05/time-magazine-has-a-separate-version-of-its-website-with-ads-only-ai-can-see/5283640>
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It’s Time to Poison AI🤨 GN Mega Charts Update & LLM Countermeasures
#GamersNexus #AI #LLM #Culture #Economics #Politics #Technology #Ethics #Bots #Crawlers #Theft #Harvesting #Scraping #Data #IP
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0WP6kEO3i8g&t=347s -
It’s Time to Poison AI🤨 GN Mega Charts Update & LLM Countermeasures
#GamersNexus #AI #LLM #Culture #Economics #Politics #Technology #Ethics #Bots #Crawlers #Theft #Harvesting #Scraping #Data #IP
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0WP6kEO3i8g&t=347s -
EFF Joins 18 Civil Rights Organizations Calling on Governor Hochul to Reject the Stealth Crawler Prohibition Act www.eff.org/deeplinks/2026… #journalism #crawlers #privacy
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EFF Joins 18 Civil Rights Organizations Calling on Governor Hochul to Reject the Stealth Crawler Prohibition Act www.eff.org/deeplinks/2026… #journalism #crawlers #privacy
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The effect of blocking AI crawlers on Blender's infrastructure. This is the CPU usage graph.
So many AI bots are crawling Blender's infra all the time. Just do a `git clone` and investigate local files. It's way faster (also for the AI users themselves) and doesn't block actual Blender development (it got that bad).
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The effect of blocking AI crawlers on Blender's infrastructure. This is the CPU usage graph.
So many AI bots are crawling Blender's infra all the time. Just do a `git clone` and investigate local files. It's way faster (also for the AI users themselves) and doesn't block actual Blender development (it got that bad).
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RE: https://social.edu.nl/@wlaatje/116970826745820091
"The web is full of independent archives, hobby databases, local news sites, forums, reference works. Decades of accumulated human effort, running on old code, maintained by small teams or single individuals, quietly holding up far more of our shared knowledge than anyone acknowledges."
And proponents of so-called 'AI' are speedrunning their destruction.
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RE: https://social.edu.nl/@wlaatje/116970826745820091
"The web is full of independent archives, hobby databases, local news sites, forums, reference works. Decades of accumulated human effort, running on old code, maintained by small teams or single individuals, quietly holding up far more of our shared knowledge than anyone acknowledges."
And proponents of so-called 'AI' are speedrunning their destruction.
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I like the new single from Crawlers.
Apple Music: https://music.apple.com/gb/album/cool/6781042262?i=6781042263
Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/track/7BKTCgTQvXFBdCDBtODvQc
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I like the new single from Crawlers.
Apple Music: https://music.apple.com/gb/album/cool/6781042262?i=6781042263
Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/track/7BKTCgTQvXFBdCDBtODvQc
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Win one of the TEN copies of Vampire Crawlers game by Poncle in #js13k 2026!
https://js13kgames.com/2026/prizes#vampirecrawlers
#gamedev #gamedevjs #Poncle #Vampire #Crawlers #VampireCrawlers #Poncle #Games
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Win one of the TEN copies of Vampire Crawlers game by Poncle in #js13k 2026!
https://js13kgames.com/2026/prizes#vampirecrawlers
#gamedev #gamedevjs #Poncle #Vampire #Crawlers #VampireCrawlers #Poncle #Games
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ICYMI: AI crawlers hit sites 50,000 times per human visit, Cloudflare data shows: AI crawlers reach up to 50,000 visits per referred reader, Cloudflare data shows, as a Munich court strips Google of its liability shield over AI Overviews. https://ppc.land/ai-crawlers-hit-sites-50-000-times-per-human-visit-cloudflare-data-shows/ #AI #Crawlers #DataAnalysis #Cloudflare #Google
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ICYMI: AI crawlers hit sites 50,000 times per human visit, Cloudflare data shows: AI crawlers reach up to 50,000 visits per referred reader, Cloudflare data shows, as a Munich court strips Google of its liability shield over AI Overviews. https://ppc.land/ai-crawlers-hit-sites-50-000-times-per-human-visit-cloudflare-data-shows/ #AI #Crawlers #DataAnalysis #Cloudflare #Google
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#Development #Launches
ua-tracer · Inspect what a user agent actually does https://ilo.im/16e91f_____
#UserAgents #Crawlers #AI #Websites #Development #WebDev #Frontend #CSS #JavaScript #Backend -
#Development #Launches
ua-tracer · Inspect what a user agent actually does https://ilo.im/16e91f_____
#UserAgents #Crawlers #AI #Websites #Development #WebDev #Frontend #CSS #JavaScript #Backend -
#Design #Inspirations
This page left intentionally blank · “In our age of generative AI, a blank page is a deliberate act!” https://ilo.im/16e912_____
#Print #Content #Websites #Blogs #SmallWeb #IndieWeb #AI #Crawlers #UxDesign #WebDesign -
#Design #Inspirations
This page left intentionally blank · “In our age of generative AI, a blank page is a deliberate act!” https://ilo.im/16e912_____
#Print #Content #Websites #Blogs #SmallWeb #IndieWeb #AI #Crawlers #UxDesign #WebDesign -
#Cloudflare gives #AI #crawlers a September deadline: pay publishers or get blocked - https://thenextweb.com/news/cloudflare-block-ai-crawlers-pay-publishers "From 15 September, Cloudflare will block crawlers that harvest content for AI training from any page carrying ads, unless the owner opts in, and pay publishers when their work shapes an AI answer. "
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#Cloudflare gives #AI #crawlers a September deadline: pay publishers or get blocked - https://thenextweb.com/news/cloudflare-block-ai-crawlers-pay-publishers "From 15 September, Cloudflare will block crawlers that harvest content for AI training from any page carrying ads, unless the owner opts in, and pay publishers when their work shapes an AI answer. "
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ICYMI: Microsoft Clarity now flags robots.txt violations inside Bot Analytics: Microsoft Clarity now surfaces robots.txt violations in Bot Analytics, showing publishers which AI crawlers break access rules and what content they target. https://ppc.land/microsoft-clarity-now-flags-robots-txt-violations-inside-bot-analytics/ #MicrosoftClarity #BotAnalytics #SEO #WebAnalytics #Crawlers
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#Business #Guides
What server logs reveal that SEO tools miss · How to uncover hidden SEO issues at scale https://ilo.im/16dm9u_____
#Google #Bing #SEO #SearchEngines #Crawlers #LogFiles #WebAnalytics #Development #WebDev #Backend -
#Business #Guides
What server logs reveal that SEO tools miss · How to uncover hidden SEO issues at scale https://ilo.im/16dm9u_____
#Google #Bing #SEO #SearchEngines #Crawlers #LogFiles #WebAnalytics #Development #WebDev #Backend -
ICYMI: New York passes bill forcing AI crawlers to identify themselves to news sites: New York's Assembly passed A11292 on June 5, 2026, requiring AI crawlers to disclose identity and purpose to news publishers or face $15,000-per-day penalties. https://ppc.land/new-york-passes-bill-forcing-ai-crawlers-to-identify-themselves-to-news-sites/ #NewYork #AI #Crawlers #News #Legislation
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ICYMI: New York passes bill forcing AI crawlers to identify themselves to news sites: New York's Assembly passed A11292 on June 5, 2026, requiring AI crawlers to disclose identity and purpose to news publishers or face $15,000-per-day penalties. https://ppc.land/new-york-passes-bill-forcing-ai-crawlers-to-identify-themselves-to-news-sites/ #NewYork #AI #Crawlers #News #Legislation
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#Business #Reports
Bots have overtaken humans on the internet · “The open web is now being swamped by AI agents.” https://ilo.im/16dlpj_____
#Bots #Crawlers #WebTraffic #WebAnalytics #AI #Websites #Development #WebDev #Frontend #Backend -
#umustbekidding #AI "#training #crawlers made up ~67.5% of observed AI bot volume in 2025" the #internet in 2026: more #bot ( #AI searching the #web) #traffic than #human traffic #wtf https://dwaves.de/2026/06/04/the-internet-in-2026-more-bot-ai-searching-the-web-traffic-than-human-traffic-wtf/ #wtf #howcanitbe #omg #answers ?
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#Anti #AI #Software / #Website Protection / AI #poison
https://iocaine.madhouse-project.org/
iocaine features:
> No sympathy towards #crawlers
Stand in the way of AI but not your visitors
> Lightweight = Very little #CPU and #RAM
Tries its best to require little resources from your visitors too.
If you can serve #static content, you'll be able to run #iocaine too.
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#Anti #AI #Software / #Website Protection / AI #poison
https://iocaine.madhouse-project.org/
iocaine features:
> No sympathy towards #crawlers
Stand in the way of AI but not your visitors
> Lightweight = Very little #CPU and #RAM
Tries its best to require little resources from your visitors too.
If you can serve #static content, you'll be able to run #iocaine too.
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"Our new analysis shows that more than 340 local news sites across the United States are now limiting the #InternetArchive’s ability to access and preserve their stories.
Researchers, historians, and citizens around the world rely on the web archives of #localnews sites to do their work.
“Blocking the Internet Archive’s web #crawlers threatens one of the most effective ways that we capture and store news content for the long term.”"
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"Our new analysis shows that more than 340 local news sites across the United States are now limiting the #InternetArchive’s ability to access and preserve their stories.
Researchers, historians, and citizens around the world rely on the web archives of #localnews sites to do their work.
“Blocking the Internet Archive’s web #crawlers threatens one of the most effective ways that we capture and store news content for the long term.”"
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Crawlers – Roadside Attractions and Saban Films pick up the new spider-infested horror film. Details here https://www.liveforfilm.com/2026/05/04/crawlers-roadside-attractions-and-saban-films-pick-up-the-new-spider-infested-horror-film/
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Crawlers – Roadside Attractions and Saban Films pick up the new spider-infested horror film. Details here https://www.liveforfilm.com/2026/05/04/crawlers-roadside-attractions-and-saban-films-pick-up-the-new-spider-infested-horror-film/
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Spider-Horror Pic ‘Crawlers’ Acquired By Roadside Attractions & Saban Films
#Acquisitions #News #Crawlers #RoadsideAttractions #SabanFilmshttps://deadline.com/2026/04/crawlers-roadside-attractions-1236877140/
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Spider-Horror Pic ‘Crawlers’ Acquired By Roadside Attractions & Saban Films
#Acquisitions #News #Crawlers #RoadsideAttractions #SabanFilmshttps://deadline.com/2026/04/crawlers-roadside-attractions-1236877140/
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Blocking AI crawlers cost news publishers 7% of traffic, study finds: A Wharton and Rutgers study finds news publishers who blocked LLM crawlers lost 7% of weekly traffic in 6 weeks, with no measurable content protection gains. https://ppc.land/blocking-ai-crawlers-cost-news-publishers-7-of-traffic-study-finds/ #AI #crawlers #NewsPublishers #TrafficLoss #ContentProtection
