alt Hacker NewsI highly doubt there is no other technically feasible option to block the AI bots. You end up blocking not just bots, but many humans too. When I clicked on the link and the bot block came up, I just clicked back. I think HN posts should have warnings when the site blocks you from seeing it until you somehow, maybe, prove you are human.
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> I highly doubt there is no other technically feasible option to block the AI bots.
If you have discovered such an option, you could get very wealthy: minimizing friction for humans in e-commerce is valuable. If you're a drive-by critic not vested in the project, then yours is an instance of talk being cheap.
I'm all ears on how we can fix it otherwise.
Keep in mind that those kinds of services: - should not be MITMed by CDNs - are generally ran by volunteers with zero budget, money and time-wise
I'm sure there are many solutions for many problems, but expecting a small Foss development team to know or implement them all is rather unreasonable.
I think the world gains more if the VLAN team focuses on their amazing, free contribution to the world, than if they spend the same time trying to figure out how to save you two clicks.
We all hate that this is happening, but you don't need to attack everyone that is unfortunately caught up in it.