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211 points CrankyBear | 1 comments | 02 Sep 25 16:24 UTC | HN request time: 0.21s | source

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k310 ◴[02 Sep 25 16:50 UTC] No.45105673[source]▶

> Cloud services company Fastly agrees. It reports that 80% of all AI bot traffic comes from AI data fetcher bots.

No kidding. An increasing number of sites are putting up CAPTCHA's.

Problem? CAPTCHAS are annoying, they're a 50 times a day eye exam, and

> Google's reCAPTCHA is not only useless, it's also basically spyware [0]

> reCAPTCHA v3's checkbox test doesn't stop bots and tracks user data

1. ronsor ◴[02 Sep 25 16:59 UTC] No.45105796[source]▶

I've just started clicking away from pages that are full of CAPTCHAs. Ironically this has resulted in me using AI more.

AI web crawlers are destroying websites in their never-ending content hunger