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20250602 - Fighting the AI scraper bots
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We are lucky they are so very stupid.
Text version: https://pivot-to-ai.com/2025/06/02/fighting-the-ai-scraper-bots-at-pivot-to-ai-and-rationalwiki/
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Sources:
1 Million Third-Party Android Devices Have a Secret Backdoor for Scammers https://www.wired.com/story/1-million-third-party-android-devices-badbox-2/
jwz's Blog: https://www.jwz.org/blog/
Previously on Pivot to AI:
What the floods of AI scraper bots look like in 2025 https://pivot-to-ai.com/2025/03/02/what-the-floods-of-ai-scraper-bots-look-like-in-2025/
That RationalWiki configuration fragment:
set $BOT ""; if ($uri ~* (/w/index.php)) { set $BOT "C"; }
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