> it probably costs you as much or more than it costs them in terms of both network bytes and CPU Network bytes, perhaps (though text is small), but the articl

> it probably costs you as much or more than it costs them in terms of both network bytes and CPU Network bytes, perhaps (though text is small), but the article points out that each garbage page is served using only microseconds of CPU time, and a little over a megabyte of RAM. The goal here isn't to get the bots to go away, it's to feed them garbage forever, in a way that's light on your resources. Certainly the bot, plus the offline process that trains on your garbage data, will be using more CPU (and I/O) time than you will to generate it.