Nemeski@lemm.ee to Opensource@programming.dev · 4 months agoOpen Source devs say AI crawlers dominate traffic, forcing blocks on entire countriesarstechnica.comexternal-linkmessage-square10fedilinkarrow-up136arrow-down10cross-posted to: technology@lemmy.worldhackernews
arrow-up136arrow-down1external-linkOpen Source devs say AI crawlers dominate traffic, forcing blocks on entire countriesarstechnica.comNemeski@lemm.ee to Opensource@programming.dev · 4 months agomessage-square10fedilinkcross-posted to: technology@lemmy.worldhackernews
minus-squaresnowe@programming.devlinkfedilinkarrow-up4·4 months agoabout 50% of traffic to programming.dev is bots who have marked their user-agents as such. I’m pretty confident the actual number is higher, but haven’t spent time validating.
minus-squareJustFudgnWork@sh.itjust.workslinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up3·4 months agoWOW. Source for this?
minus-squareRonSijm@programming.devlinkfedilinkarrow-up4·4 months agoSnowe is sysadmin of programming.dev… So source: Snowe
about 50% of traffic to programming.dev is bots who have marked their user-agents as such. I’m pretty confident the actual number is higher, but haven’t spent time validating.
WOW. Source for this?
Snowe is sysadmin of programming.dev…
So source: Snowe
Oh thanks lol