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[–] [email protected] 82 points 1 month ago (12 children)

Also it doesn't respect robots.txt (the file that tells bots whether or not a given page can be accessed) unlike most AI scrapping bots.

[–] [email protected] 52 points 1 month ago (8 children)

My personal website that primarily functions as a front end to my home server has been getting BEAT by these stupid web scrapers. Every couple of days the server is unusable because some web scraper demanded every single possible page and crashed the damn thing

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 month ago (1 children)

My god... It's true. TikTok does access the home wifi network! https://youtu.be/OSQ76ZrHmd4

/sObviously

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

Funnily enough, the bot everyone identified as tik tok hasn't hit me as far as I'm aware. It's mostly been random LLM bots grabbing data to train.

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