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Anyone has experienced high load of traffic from AI Bots / Scrappers recently?
Anyone has experienced high load of traffic from AI Bots / Scrappers recently? I'm trying to understand the size of the problem.
I know that Cloudflare and others have started offering such services like blocking this kind of traffic.
For people like us, setting up those tools is easy peasy, however for non-technical folks might be a headache.
I have already setup this for a few people and was wondering if there is an opportunity to productize the service.
I will really appreciate any insights.
I know that Cloudflare and others have started offering such services like blocking this kind of traffic.
For people like us, setting up those tools is easy peasy, however for non-technical folks might be a headache.
I have already setup this for a few people and was wondering if there is an opportunity to productize the service.
I will really appreciate any insights.
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My $0.02? I don't care if AI bots scrape my entire website. Gives me a better chance of ranking for some query on ChatGPT.
Google Search as it is today will die over the long term anyway - you can already see them putting AI-generated results at the top of the page ahead of their actual search results.
So this is a non-issue for me, even a positive. No sense in fighting the wave, embrace it :)
Thanks Ben! Appreciate the honest feedback!