#theftbots — Public Fediverse posts
Live and recent posts from across the Fediverse tagged #theftbots, aggregated by home.social.
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Our apology to the humans who had to do an extra click: https://autocade.world/2025/12/our-apology-to-the-humans-who-had-to-do-an-extra-click/ #AI #theftbots
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In my #blog
Block and challenge away—there are so few exceptions, it’s like winning the lotteryhttps://jackyan.com/blog/2025/12/block-and-challenge-away-there-are-so-few-exceptions-its-like-winning-the-lottery/ #theftbots #Cloudflare #BigTech
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In my #blog
Block and challenge away—there are so few exceptions, it’s like winning the lotteryhttps://jackyan.com/blog/2025/12/block-and-challenge-away-there-are-so-few-exceptions-its-like-winning-the-lottery/ #theftbots #Cloudflare #BigTech
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Where are the Autocade scrapers coming from today? Of the latest, six are from #Tencent, and the other 19 are from #Google. Blimmin’ #theftbots.
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Where are the Autocade scrapers coming from today? Of the latest, six are from #Tencent, and the other 19 are from #Google. Blimmin’ #theftbots.
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More dodgy activities from crooked #Google customers … 800–900 hits aren’t much but coordinated with four or more other addresses from googleusercontent.com—you get the picture. These are probably scrapers running #theftbots on Google, or hackers probing for vulnerabilities.
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More dodgy activities from crooked #Google customers … 800–900 hits aren’t much but coordinated with four or more other addresses from googleusercontent.com—you get the picture. These are probably scrapers running #theftbots on Google, or hackers probing for vulnerabilities.
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@sylvie Cloudflareʼs list of bots that users can apply is really small. I used it and it barely put a dent into the theftbot activity. Hardly any of the Chinese ones were there. Instead I had to add my own rules (checked daily) and only then did the traffic levels return to normal. I imagine they were never prepared for just how many #theftbots are out there.
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@sylvie Cloudflareʼs list of bots that users can apply is really small. I used it and it barely put a dent into the theftbot activity. Hardly any of the Chinese ones were there. Instead I had to add my own rules (checked daily) and only then did the traffic levels return to normal. I imagine they were never prepared for just how many #theftbots are out there.
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RE: https://wandering.shop/@silverspookgames/115572330340124761
Considering #Google has been setting #theftbots on our sites, allowing its customers to set theftbots on our sites, literally financing disinformation created by “#AI”, and indexing bot-written crap highly to keep us searching, then I am quite happy to see them go. Whoever is left, those of us who didnʼt egg on this bubble, who tried to do right by the planet, might make a better internet than these greedy bastards. Bye, boys.
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RE: https://wandering.shop/@silverspookgames/115572330340124761
Considering #Google has been setting #theftbots on our sites, allowing its customers to set theftbots on our sites, literally financing disinformation created by “#AI”, and indexing bot-written crap highly to keep us searching, then I am quite happy to see them go. Whoever is left, those of us who didnʼt egg on this bubble, who tried to do right by the planet, might make a better internet than these greedy bastards. Bye, boys.
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2010: Visitor stats are up on the websites! Great!
2025: Visitor stats are up on the websites! Letʼs check the security settings to make sure there arenʼt any new “#AI” #theftbots we failed to block!
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2010: Visitor stats are up on the websites! Great!
2025: Visitor stats are up on the websites! Letʼs check the security settings to make sure there arenʼt any new “#AI” #theftbots we failed to block!
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@djoerd They definitely do. We block one called Google-CloudVertexBot, and we also block anything coming from googleusercontent.com. You can see where we managed to deal with most of the #theftbots in the middle of the graph:
https://jackyan.com/blog/2025/10/the-trails-of-the-theftbots/
A lot were from Tencent and ByteDance. Tencent hits this site over 30,000 times a day (still does).
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@djoerd They definitely do. We block one called Google-CloudVertexBot, and we also block anything coming from googleusercontent.com. You can see where we managed to deal with most of the #theftbots in the middle of the graph:
https://jackyan.com/blog/2025/10/the-trails-of-the-theftbots/
A lot were from Tencent and ByteDance. Tencent hits this site over 30,000 times a day (still does).
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Ten thousand page views overnight, which means we are keeping not only the known “#AI” #theftbots at bay, but the private ones as well.
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#Autocade traffic is down to more sensible levels. Looks like weʼve successfully blocked almost all of the #theftbots from Google users, Tencent, Alibaba, OpenAI, ByteDance, Meta, Semrush, and others. #bots #GrandTheftAutocorrect
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#Autocade traffic is down to more sensible levels. Looks like weʼve successfully blocked almost all of the #theftbots from Google users, Tencent, Alibaba, OpenAI, ByteDance, Meta, Semrush, and others. #bots #GrandTheftAutocorrect