• jagged_circle@feddit.nl
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    25 days ago

    Not rate limiting is bad. Hate them because of that, not because they’re a bot.

    Some bots are nice

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      25 days ago

      Even if they were rate limiting they’re still just using the bot to train an AI. If it’s from a company there’s a 99% chance the bot is bad. I’m leaving 1% for whatever the Internet Archive (are they even a company tho?) is doing.

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      25 days ago

      I don’t hate all bots, I hate this bot specifically because:

      • they intentionally hide that they are a bot to evade our, and everyone else’s, methods of restricting which bots we allow and how much activity we allow.
      • they do not respect the robots.txt
      • the already mentioned lack of rate limiting