Selfhosted@lemmy.worldEnglish · 1 day ago

Non-Cloudflare AI blocking?

Selfhosted@lemmy.worldEnglish · 1 day ago

Now that we know AI bots will ignore robots.txt and churn residential IP addresses to scrape websites, does anyone know of a method to block them that doesn’t entail handing over your website to Cloudflare?

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Any reason you prefer this to mCAPTCHA?
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  I didn’t know about mCaptcha. Thanks for sharing.

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