AI companies cause most of traffic on forums

It looks like various companies with resources are using available means to block AI bots - it's just that the little guys don't have that kinda stuff at their disposal.

What does everybody use to avoid DDOS in general? Is it just becoming Cloudflare-or-else?

Cloudflare, Radware, Netscout, Cloud providers, perimeter devices, carrier null-routes, etc.

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