agentultra
12 hours ago
A nice attempt and another layer for the swiss cheese of technology it will take to try and ease the burden AI companies are putting on people trying to run websites.
I'd be cautious about relying on just the good will of Cloudflare.
It's unfortunate that we need honeypots and tarpits to trap AI scrapers just so that our hosting bills don't get hosed. It's taking a good chunk of value out of running a site on the Internet.
OutOfHere
11 hours ago
Feel free to waste your expensive outgoing bandwidth running malware. It is a genius idea really from the cloud companies to enrich their balances.
Definitely don't rewrite your web server more efficiently in Rust instead. /s
Retric
11 hours ago
Serving poisoned text can be so cheap it’s effectively free as long as you don’t give them a lot of links.
Mars008
5 hours ago
Yeh, and say goodby to google search. You didn't want to be there anyway, right?
techjamie
8 hours ago
Many of these tarpits deliberately serve the data at an excruciatingly low speed to ease the burden on the server resources. It's cheaper than quickly serving the same crawlers your entire website at max speed constantly.
OutOfHere
5 hours ago
If we are going for cheaper, how is it cheaper than an HTTP 429 error? It's not.