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[โ€“] [email protected] 6 points 4 months ago (1 children)

Data transfer isn't free. It costs real money and energy to respond to queries. Don't be surprised to see ~50% of all requests made to your server be from bots which you may have no interest in servicing outside of search engine indexers.

[โ€“] [email protected] 2 points 4 months ago

If you publish your data in a friendly manner bots would have no need to crawl your site.

Data that is more interesting and requested a lot could even be served over p2p.

This moderl would generate less cost that dealing with constant bot scrappers.

It is not a technical discussion. Or a discussion about associated cost. It's a discussion about morals and economic models.