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[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (2 children)

Not rate limiting is bad. Hate them because of that, not because they're a bot.

Some bots are nice

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 month ago

Even if they were rate limiting they're still just using the bot to train an AI. If it's from a company there's a 99% chance the bot is bad. I'm leaving 1% for whatever the Internet Archive (are they even a company tho?) is doing.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 month ago

I don't hate all bots, I hate this bot specifically because:

  • they intentionally hide that they are a bot to evade our, and everyone else's, methods of restricting which bots we allow and how much activity we allow.
  • they do not respect the robots.txt
  • the already mentioned lack of rate limiting