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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[–] 18 points 6 months ago*

I was up 10 to 20 percent month over month, and suddenly up 1000% it has spiked hard and they all are data harvesters.

I know I am going to start blocking them, which is too bad, I put valuable technical information up, with no advertising, because I want to share it. And I don't even really mind indexers or even AI learning about it. But I cannot sustain this kind of bullshit traffic, so I will end up taking a heavy hand and blocking everything, and then no one will find it.

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