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TikTok’s parent launched a web scraper that’s gobbling up the world’s online data 25-times faster than OpenAI (fortune.com)

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[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (2 children)

Not rate limiting is bad. Hate them because of that, not because they're a bot.

Some bots are nice

[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 months ago

Even if they were rate limiting they're still just using the bot to train an AI. If it's from a company there's a 99% chance the bot is bad. I'm leaving 1% for whatever the Internet Archive (are they even a company tho?) is doing.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 months ago

I don't hate all bots, I hate this bot specifically because:

they intentionally hide that they are a bot to evade our, and everyone else's, methods of restricting which bots we allow and how much activity we allow.
they do not respect the robots.txt
the already mentioned lack of rate limiting