Tea@programming.dev to Technology@lemmy.worldEnglish · edit-22 days agoAI crawlers cause Wikimedia(The umbrella organization of Wikipedia and a dozen or so other crowdsourced knowledge projects) Commons bandwidth demands to surge 50%.diff.wikimedia.orgexternal-linkmessage-square77fedilinkarrow-up1709arrow-down16
arrow-up1703arrow-down1external-linkAI crawlers cause Wikimedia(The umbrella organization of Wikipedia and a dozen or so other crowdsourced knowledge projects) Commons bandwidth demands to surge 50%.diff.wikimedia.orgTea@programming.dev to Technology@lemmy.worldEnglish · edit-22 days agomessage-square77fedilink
minus-squaregrysbok@lemmy.sdf.orglinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1·1 day agoBots lie about who they are, ignore robots.txt, and come from a gazillion different IPs.
Bots lie about who they are, ignore robots.txt, and come from a gazillion different IPs.
That’s what ddos protection is for.