Open source devs are fighting AI crawlers with cleverness and vengeance [TechCrunch]
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While any website might be targeted by bad crawler behavior – sometimes taking down the site – open source developers are “disproportionately” impacted, writes Niccolò Venerandi, developer of a Linux desktop known as Plasma and owner of the blog LibreNews. By their nature, sites hosting free and open source (FOSS) projects share more of their infrastructure publicly, and they also tend to have fewer resources than commercial products. The issue is that many AI bots don't honor the Robots Exclusion Protocol robot.txt file, the tool that tells bots what not to crawl, originally created for search engine bots. In a “cry for help” blog post in January, FOSS developer Xe Iaso described how AmazonBot relentlessly pounded on a Git server website to the point of causing DDoS outages. Git servers host FOSS projects so that anyone who wants can download the code or contribute to it. But this bot ignored laso's robot.txt, hid behind other IP addresses, and pretended to be other users, l
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