Yep, I did this for a while. The TikTok Byte Dance / Byte Spider bots were making millions of image requests from my site. Over and over again and they would

Yep, I did this for a while. The TikTok Byte Dance / Byte Spider bots were making millions of image requests from my site. Over and over again and they would not stop. I eventually got Cloudinary to block all the relevant user agents, and initially just totally blocked Singapore. It’s very abusive on the part of these bot running AI scraping companies! If I hadn’t been using the kind and generous Cloudinary, I could have been stuck with some seriously expensive hosting bills! Nowadays I just block all AI bots with Cloudflare and be done with it!