Tag: crawlers
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The Register: Anubis guards gates against hordes of LLM bot crawlers
Source URL: https://www.theregister.com/2025/07/09/anubis_fighting_the_llm_hordes/ Source: The Register Title: Anubis guards gates against hordes of LLM bot crawlers Feedly Summary: Using proof of work to block the web-crawlers of ‘AI’ companies Anubis is a sort of CAPTCHA test, but flipped: instead of checking visitors are human, it aims to make web crawling prohibitively expensive for companies trying…
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Slashdot: The FSF Faces Active ‘Ongoing and Increasing’ DDoS Attacks
Source URL: https://news.slashdot.org/story/25/07/06/1737253/the-fsf-faces-active-ongoing-and-increasing-ddos-attacks?utm_source=rss1.0mainlinkanon&utm_medium=feed Source: Slashdot Title: The FSF Faces Active ‘Ongoing and Increasing’ DDoS Attacks Feedly Summary: AI Summary and Description: Yes **Summary:** The Free Software Foundation (FSF) is grappling with ongoing Distributed Denial of Service (DDoS) attacks, primarily attributed to botnets and potential Large Language Model (LLM) scrapers. Despite these challenges, their critical infrastructure…
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The Cloudflare Blog: From Googlebot to GPTBot: who’s crawling your site in 2025
Source URL: https://blog.cloudflare.com/from-googlebot-to-gptbot-whos-crawling-your-site-in-2025/ Source: The Cloudflare Blog Title: From Googlebot to GPTBot: who’s crawling your site in 2025 Feedly Summary: From May 2024 to May 2025, crawler traffic rose 18%, with GPTBot growing 305% and Googlebot 96%. AI Summary and Description: Yes Summary: The text discusses the evolution of web crawlers, particularly focusing on the…
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The Cloudflare Blog: The crawl before the fall… of referrals: understanding AI’s impact on content providers
Source URL: https://blog.cloudflare.com/ai-search-crawl-refer-ratio-on-radar/ Source: The Cloudflare Blog Title: The crawl before the fall… of referrals: understanding AI’s impact on content providers Feedly Summary: Cloudflare Radar now shows how often a given AI model sends traffic to a site relative to how often it crawls that site. This helps site owners make decisions about which AI…