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Re: Webmaster's Blog
Posted: Mon Mar 18, 2024 10:31 am
by mknz
Bot traffic has gotten so bad, I don't think any of them have gotten through, and the site has remained stable, but the traffic costs were going to be up to an extra 30USD per month.
I've had to blanket ban all of AWS Singapore to deal with this.
Re: Webmaster's Blog
Posted: Sat Mar 23, 2024 9:20 am
by mknz
Having to escalate to requiring the captcha to access the site to control the cost of hosting. AI data scraping is terrible
Re: Webmaster's Blog
Posted: Sun Jul 07, 2024 11:14 pm
by mknz
CloudFlare has added AI [scraping] bot blocking to free tier and it's now enabled on the site. This should fix it and I can remove the aggressive "Are you a human?" without our hosting costs going back up again.