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AI companies cause most of traffic on forums

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770 points ta988 | 1 comments | 30 Dec 24 14:37 UTC | HN request time: 0.251s | source
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johng ◴[30 Dec 24 14:40 UTC] No.42549646[source]▶
If they ignore robots.txt there should be some kind of recourse :(
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Neil44 ◴[30 Dec 24 16:53 UTC] No.42551033[source]▶
Error 403 is your only recourse.
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1. jprete ◴[30 Dec 24 17:24 UTC] No.42551354[source]▶
I hate to encourage it, but the only correct error against adversarial requests is 404. Anything else gives them information that they'll try to use against you.