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AI scrapers request commented scripts

(cryptography.dog)
255 points ColinWright | 1 comments | 31 Oct 25 15:44 UTC | HN request time: 0.208s | source
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Noumenon72 ◴[31 Oct 25 17:25 UTC] No.45774469[source]▶
It doesn't seem that abusive. I don't comment things out thinking "this will keep robots from reading this".
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mostlysimilar ◴[31 Oct 25 17:42 UTC] No.45774628[source]▶
The article mentions using this as a means of detecting bots, not as a complaint that it's abusive.

EDIT: I was chastised, here's the original text of my comment: Did you read the article or just the title? They aren't claiming it's abusive. They're saying it's a viable signal to detect and ban bots.

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1. ang_cire ◴[31 Oct 25 21:22 UTC] No.45776844[source]▶
They call the scrapers "malicious", so they are definitely complaining about them.

> A few of these came from user-agents that were obviously malicious:

(I love the idea that they consider any python or go request to be a malicious scraper...)