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		sneak 8 months ago \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Cloudflare Introduces Default Blocking of A.I. Dat... How does a bot scraping your silly hobby sites for any purpose harm or negatively affect you in any way?

pixl97 8 months ago | [–]

Depends if they hit a site enough to make it cost something. It's not hard for bots to flood servers.

Bender 8 months ago | [–]

Only if they push me over my bandwidth limits but they can't do that if I just drop them on the floor.

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