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Ai scraping is an effective DDoS on the entire interent (pod.geraspora.de)

submitted 1 day ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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[–] [email protected] 6 points 21 hours ago (1 children)

That opens you up to getting accused of click fraud, as AdNauseam found out the hard way but its worth it if you can squeeze some cash out of them before that happens.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 18 hours ago

I mean, scraping bots would obviously obey robots.txt so those scraping - bots, i mean users can't be bots