Nemeski@lemm.ee to Opensource@programming.dev · 8 days agoOpen Source devs say AI crawlers dominate traffic, forcing blocks on entire countriesarstechnica.comexternal-linkmessage-square10fedilinkarrow-up136arrow-down10cross-posted to: technology@lemmy.worldtechnology@lemmy.ziptechnology@lemmy.mlhackernews@lemmy.bestiver.se
arrow-up136arrow-down1external-linkOpen Source devs say AI crawlers dominate traffic, forcing blocks on entire countriesarstechnica.comNemeski@lemm.ee to Opensource@programming.dev · 8 days agomessage-square10fedilinkcross-posted to: technology@lemmy.worldtechnology@lemmy.ziptechnology@lemmy.mlhackernews@lemmy.bestiver.se
minus-squaresnowe@programming.devlinkfedilinkarrow-up4·7 days 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-up2·6 days agoWOW. Source for this?
minus-squareRonSijm@programming.devlinkfedilinkarrow-up3·5 days 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