Humans are served by bots. Any bot requesting traffic is doing so on behalf of a human somewhere.
What is the problem with bots asking for traffic, exactly?
Context of my perspective: I am a contractor for a team that hosts thousands of websites on a Kubernetes cluster. All of the websites are on a storage cluster (combination of ZFS and Ceph) with SATA and NVMe SSDs. The machines in the storage cluster and also the machines the web endpoints run on have tons of RAM.
We see a lot of traffic from what are obviously scraping bots. They haven't caused any problems.
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