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Based on this graph, and this graph alone, guess at what time I completely blocked OpenAI crawlers (thelemmy.club)

submitted 6 months ago by hylobates@jlai.lu to c/selfhosted@lemmy.world

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I really hope they die soon, this is unbearable…

A graph of MySQL queries showing a violent drop in requests after blocking OpenAI Crawlers

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[–] CoreLabJoe@piefed.ca 23 points 6 months ago

Blocking them locally is one way, but if you're already using cloudflare there's a nice way to do it UPSTREAM so it's not eating any of your resources.

You can do geofencing/blocking and bot-blocking via Cloudflare:
https://corelab.tech/cloudflarept2/

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