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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 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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[–] 5 points 6 months ago (3 children)

This is not how things work on the modern web. Did you just wake up from a 20 year coma?

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  • [–] 1 point 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago) (2 children)

    Whenever you’re browsing even a semi popular website these days there’s probably a 98% chance you’re hitting a cloudflare cached version of it. Have you been asleep the last 10 years?

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  • [–] 1 point 6 months ago (1 child)

    For static sites, yes. To actually protect dynamic sites against AI crawlers, Cloudflare has to do much more than just caching.

    And besides that, Cloudflare is a huge single point of failure and highly privacy invasive.

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  • [–] 1 point 6 months ago

    Dynamic sites still get cached.

    Cloudflare definitely is a huge single point of failure, and it is a huge problem imo - but what can we do? Their product is so widely used because of how comprehensive, good, and necessary it is.

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