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this post was submitted on 26 Jul 2024
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Data transfer isn't free. It costs real money and energy to respond to queries. Don't be surprised to see ~50% of all requests made to your server be from bots which you may have no interest in servicing outside of search engine indexers.
If you publish your data in a friendly manner bots would have no need to crawl your site.
Data that is more interesting and requested a lot could even be served over p2p.
This moderl would generate less cost that dealing with constant bot scrappers.
It is not a technical discussion. Or a discussion about associated cost. It's a discussion about morals and economic models.