hylobates@jlai.lu to Selfhosted@lemmy.worldEnglish · 5 天前Based on this graph, and this graph alone, guess at what time I completely blocked OpenAI crawlersjlai.luimagemessage-square77linkfedilinkarrow-up1555arrow-down16file-text
arrow-up1549arrow-down1imageBased on this graph, and this graph alone, guess at what time I completely blocked OpenAI crawlersjlai.luhylobates@jlai.lu to Selfhosted@lemmy.worldEnglish · 5 天前message-square77linkfedilinkfile-text
minus-squareAHemlocksLie@lemmy.ziplinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up17arrow-down1·4 天前Pretty sure I’ve repeatedly heard about the crawlers completely ignoring robots.txt, so does Cloudflare really do that much?
minus-squaretomjuggler@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up5·3 天前Yes, CloudFlare blocks agents completely if they ignore it’s restrictions. The key is scale - CloudFlare has a birds eye view of traffic patterns across millions of sites and can do statistical analysis to determine who is a bot. I hate the necessity but it works
minus-squareSv443@sh.itjust.workslinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up9arrow-down1·4 天前Like a lock on a door, it stops the vast majority but can’t do shit about the actual professional bad guys
minus-squareFreedomAdvocate@lemmy.net.aulinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up2·3 天前Cloudflare definitely can and does stop the vast majority of actual professional bad guys.
Pretty sure I’ve repeatedly heard about the crawlers completely ignoring robots.txt, so does Cloudflare really do that much?
Yes, CloudFlare blocks agents completely if they ignore it’s restrictions. The key is scale - CloudFlare has a birds eye view of traffic patterns across millions of sites and can do statistical analysis to determine who is a bot.
I hate the necessity but it works
Like a lock on a door, it stops the vast majority but can’t do shit about the actual professional bad guys
Cloudflare definitely can and does stop the vast majority of actual professional bad guys.