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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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[–] Mojeek@lemmy.ml 4 points 1 year ago (1 children)

if you have any recall on where the list came from that's also useful to us. Here's our Bot page: https://www.mojeek.com/bot.html and some external info: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mojeek

[–] r00ty@kbin.life 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Didn't have the link to hand. But a search turned this one up: https://reggiodigital.com/blog/nginx-rule-blocking-bad-bots/ it looks to be the same list, and you can see the ones I've added to the end of that list.

[–] Mojeek@lemmy.ml 2 points 1 year ago

thanks a lot for providing this 🙏