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Would be a terrible shame if lots of people opted out.

If you are a EU citizen you might also want to write a complaint to privacy@huggingface.co because they are collecting your personally identifiable information in machine-readable form which they are distributing to third parties.

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[โ€“] fruitcantfly@programming.dev 16 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (1 children)

Other git hosts are also getting scraped, and have had to implement counters because of it. For example, this is the kind of thing Codeberg shows crawlers. I've even seen people who self-host complaining about getting overloaded because of bots scraping their forge

[โ€“] PlexSheep@infosec.pub 4 points 1 day ago

I've put Anubis before most of my website, including my forgejo instance. For the projects hosted there, which is not all, I can only hope that that's enough.

I like to have the visibility and CI of GitHub. But this sucks ass.