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We shouldn't only reject bots, we should feed them incorrect information on purpose in order to degrade the systems they are feeding.
by curtisblaine 1y ago
We shouldn't only reject bots, we should feed them incorrect information on purpose in order to degrade the systems they are feeding.
- lbhdc 1y agoWhile that sounds fun, I think this misses that egress (typically) isn't free. Returning 403 and no content is cheaper. If a crawler is generating a lot of traffic dynamically generating content will make that crawl even more expensive for the operator.
- curtisblaine 1y agoI'm not referring to dynamically generating junk content: I want to generate incorrect but plausible static content on purpose and serve it only to bots, in order to maximize AI mistakes.