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No you cannot! I blocked all of the user agents on a community wiki I run, and the traffic came back hours later masquerading as Firefox and Chrome. They just f
by mplewis 10mo ago
No you cannot! I blocked all of the user agents on a community wiki I run, and the traffic came back hours later masquerading as Firefox and Chrome. They just fucking lie to you and continue vacuuming your CPU.
- cpncrunch 10mo agoThere shouldn't be any noticeable hit on your cpu from bots from a site like that. Are you sure it's not a DDoS? Obviously it depends on the bot, and you can't block the scammy ones. I was really just referring to the major legitimate companies (which might not include Perplexity).
- literalAardvark 10mo agoThere is a noticeable hit, there's also a noticeable cost, and it's not a ddos. Not all sites can have full caching, we've tried.
- cpncrunch 10mo agoI was referring to the community wiki.
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