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Aggressive AI scrapers are making it kinda suck to run wikis
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The problem is that you can't block all scraping. The scrapers make their bots look like regular traffic, so even if you block all known scrapers, there will be tons that just look like humans visiting your site.
Collaborative list of basic IP blocks of known scraper hosts.
They rent IPs, they can look like residential IPs.
I don't know how these IP services work, but blocking them seems like blocking AWS - suddenly you didn't just block telegram but various websites and services don't work anymore.
/edit: the article goes into this and also blocking
They spoof their ip now
IP addresses can't really be spoofed, but there are other issues that make IP-based filtering impractical. (VPNs, IPv6, malicious reporting, shared IPs, NAT, etc)
changing IPs is very easy.