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Open Source devs say AI crawlers dominate traffic, forcing blocks on entire countries (arstechnica.com)
submitted 1 year ago by neme@lemm.ee to c/opensource@programming.dev
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[–] snowe@programming.dev 4 points 1 year 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@sh.itjust.works 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

WOW. Source for this?

[–] RonSijm@programming.dev 4 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Snowe is sysadmin of programming.dev...

So source: Snowe