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Charge site owners to protect the site from aggressive crawlers, charge crawlers/agents to bypass the protection. Like a good old fashioned protection racket
by nojs 1y ago
Charge site owners to protect the site from aggressive crawlers, charge crawlers/agents to bypass the protection. Like a good old fashioned protection racket
- tofuziggy 1y agoCharge crawlers and pay site owners, and take a cut of course
- riedel 1y agoThanks for the tl;dr . Why is this blog post so long? Will they charge per token?
- josefresco 1y agoI guess it would be if Cloudflare was operating the bots.
- mritchie712 1y agohuh? they can block the bots
- abirch 1y agoUsually the protection racket (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Protection_racket https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Protection_racket) is when the people who will cause the destruction charge to prevent it from happening. Paying a security guard isn't considered a protection racket, while paying a member of the mob so that nothing happens to my store is considered a protection racket.
- nojs 1y agoWhat do you call it when the same security guard also gets paid by the attackers to let them in?
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- paxys 1y agoThat's not what protection racket means. Cloudflare isn't the one building LLMs and scraping websites.
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