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ihumanyesterday at 3:32 PM2 repliesview on HN

There's a difference between someone running a scraping tool occasionally and bots constantly and rapidly re-scraping the same site over and over again


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Lalabadieyesterday at 4:03 PM

The author's website is responsible for storing its own data. AI services currently treat the entire web as their storage and cache layer.

qbaneyesterday at 3:55 PM

This is an important context: the site is more likely to be targeted by scrapers because it is a curated collection of scraped information.

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