Tag: scraping defenses
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Hacker News: AI haters build tarpits to trap and trick AI scrapers that ignore robots.txt
Source URL: https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2025/01/ai-haters-build-tarpits-to-trap-and-trick-ai-scrapers-that-ignore-robots-txt/ Source: Hacker News Title: AI haters build tarpits to trap and trick AI scrapers that ignore robots.txt Feedly Summary: Comments AI Summary and Description: Yes Summary: The text discusses the creation of a new malware named Nepenthes, designed by a software developer to combat AI web crawlers that ignore “no scraping” directives…