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AI companies cause most of traffic on forums

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770 points ta988 | 4 comments | 30 Dec 24 14:37 UTC | HN request time: 0.002s | source
1. mtnGoat ◴[30 Dec 24 17:22 UTC] No.42551325[source]▶
Some of these ai companies are so aggressive they are essentially dos’ing sites offline with their request volumes.

Should be careful before they get blacked and can’t get data anymore. ;)

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2. Dilettante_ ◴[31 Dec 24 22:12 UTC] No.42562238[source]▶
>before they get blacked

...Please don't phrase it like that.

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3. ribadeo ◴[01 Jan 25 17:05 UTC] No.42567329[source]▶
Its probably 'blocked' misspelled, given the context.

Not everyone speaks English as a first language

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4. Dilettante_ ◴[01 Jan 25 21:14 UTC] No.42569365{3}[source]▶
Oh that makes more sense. I read it as an unfortunately chosen abbreviation of "blacklisted".