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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: 0.22s | source
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tecoholic ◴[31 Dec 24 21:31 UTC] No.42561992[source]▶
For any self-hosting enthusiasts out here. Check your network traffic if you have a Gitea instance running. My network traffic was mostly just AmazonBot and some others from China hitting every possible URL constantly. My traffic has gone from 2-5GB per day to a tenth of that after blocking the bots.
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1. Saris ◴[02 Jan 25 14:37 UTC] No.42574773[source]▶
It's the main reason I access my stuff via VPN when I'm out of the house. There are potential security issues with having services exposed, but mainly there's just so much garbage traffic adding load to my server and connection and I don't want to worry about it.