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Open Source devs say AI crawlers dominate traffic, forcing blocks on entire countries (arstechnica.com)

submitted 3 weeks ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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[–] [email protected] 4 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

about 50% of traffic to programming.dev is bots who have marked their user-agents as such. I'm pretty confident the actual number is higher, but haven't spent time validating.

[–] JustFudgnWork 3 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

WOW. Source for this?

[–] [email protected] 4 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

Snowe is sysadmin of programming.dev...

So source: Snowe

[–] JustFudgnWork 2 points 3 weeks ago

Oh thanks lol