I had the same thought... well at least the first part of it. I deployed https://iocaine.madhouse-project.org/ https://iocaine.madhouse-project.org/ and the bot

I had the same thought... well at least the first part of it. I deployed https://iocaine.madhouse-project.org/ https://iocaine.madhouse-project.org/ and the bots have mostly stopped crawling my HTML. They crawl mostly an endless maze of garbage now instead.