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

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211 points CrankyBear | 1 comments | 02 Sep 25 16:24 UTC | HN request time: 0.457s | 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

[0] https://www.techspot.com/news/106717-google-recaptcha-not-on...

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1. superkuh ◴[02 Sep 25 17:42 UTC] No.45106468[source]▶
And because companies like Fastly only measure things via javascript execution and assume everything that doesn't execute JS correctly is a bot, that 80% contains a whole bunch of human persons.