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Open Source devs say AI crawlers dominate traffic, forcing blocks on entire countries (arstechnica.com)

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[–] onlinepersona -3 points 5 days ago* (last edited 5 days ago) (2 children)

Maybe these open source sites should move off the public internet and use alternative DNS servers with signup and alternative TLDs. Something like OpenNIC, but with signup. Or go straight to darknets like TOR and I2P. Maybe I2P would be better as it's slower and crawlers would probably timeout just trying to access content.

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[–] Kissaki 4 points 5 days ago* (last edited 5 days ago) (1 children)

Unless you continuously change you IP I don't see how locking DNS resolution behind a signup would solve it. You only need to resolve once, and then you know the mapping of domain to IP and can use it elsewhere. That mapping doesn't change often for hosted services.

Any wall you build up will also apply to regular users you want to reach.

[–] onlinepersona 1 points 5 days ago

That's a good point. Using alternative DNS servers and alternative TLDs might be useful until they cotton on. It could even stress OpenNIC 🤔

I2P could be better.

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