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Without a market CloudFlare wouldn't be able to ruin the internet. You can thank all of the incessant AI bots for that. I can't even browse GitHub anymore wit
by inferiorhuman 10mo ago
Without a market CloudFlare wouldn't be able to ruin the internet. You can thank all of the incessant AI bots for that. I can't even browse GitHub anymore without logging in.
- grim_io 10mo agoCloudflare doesn't need AI to survive as a business. There are more than enough DDoS attacks to protect from.
- inferiorhuman 10mo agoYet it wasn't until AI grifters started aggressively scraping everything that sites started turning to CloudFlare (and the like) en masse.
- hombre_fatal 10mo agoDon’t forget that the main issue isn’t the initial data scrape but rather the fact that prompting an llm agent like claude code can amplify into 10 requests as it tries to answer your question.
- graemep 10mo agoCloudflare was huge before AI bots became a problem.
- inferiorhuman 10mo agoNeither Cloudflare nor their competitors were aywhere near as prevalent before the AI bots. Farnell and Renesas outright blocked me, DigiKey makes me sit through their bullshit at nearly every request, issue trackers have the slowdown widgets etc. etc. etc. As late as early this year I never had these problems.