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The entire premise that "bots" need to be blocked is, in most contexts, just a social hysteria and not coming from actual technical or economic requirements. "B
by superkuh 2y ago
The entire premise that "bots" need to be blocked is, in most contexts, just a social hysteria and not coming from actual technical or economic requirements. "Bot" blocking causes far more harm to human persons than would occur if we just lets all agents access public web sites.
- janc_ 2y agoThere are bots that hurt the expected operation of your server, of course: - those that cause far too much traffic - (comment) spam bots - (for some companies) bots from companies that steal data & resell it verbatim - …? Whether CloudFlare is actually the best (or even a good) tool to fight all those, I have some doubts…
- superkuh 2y ago- If you don't want traffic don't put up a website on the public web. - If you don't want comments don't have comments. - If you don't want your website to be public then don't put it on the public web. And companies are getting just that from Cloudflare. They are no longer on the public internet. They're putting themselves on the modern AOL: Cloudflare.