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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: 0.308s | 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. DannyBee ◴[30 Dec 24 18:10 UTC] No.42551878[source]▶
The right move is transferring data to them as slow as possible.

Even if you 403 them, do it as slow as possible.

But really I would infinitely 302 them as slow as possible.