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> At least so long as my actions don't directly cause technical problems for the service operator. But they do. The reasoning you’re describing is not altruis
by devmor 4mo ago
> At least so long as my actions don't directly cause technical problems for the service operator.
But they do.
The reasoning you’re describing is not altruistic. It’s the same reasoning used by every AI scraper.
It’s the very reason I am paying a couple hundred dollars out of my own pocket every month to keep the websites of hundreds of small businesses and hobbyists online while I try to help them move to bigger cloud hosts, when I used to turn a small profit from it.
- inigyou 4mo agoMaybe if you weren't using expensive anti-bot solutions people wouldn't use expensive bots.
- devmor 4mo agoThat’s a great theory, unfortunately it’s defeated by the fact that I didn’t need to use anti-bot solutions until I was charged for 38,000x my normal ingress traffic in a single month by bot traffic.
- pocksuppet 4mo agoHow much traffic was that?
- devmor 3mo agoIt used to be around 12GB per month of egress for just under 400 various websites. Most of these people get a couple of legitimate users per month, some are small forums and hobbyist blogs. If my colo host hadn't felt bad for me, I'd have had to choose between turning my cabinet off or selling my car the first month it happened.
- fc417fc802 4mo ago> The reasoning you’re describing is not altruistic. It’s the same reasoning used by every AI scraper. I think that's bad faith on your part. Clearly AI scrapers are aware of what they are doing and simply don't care. The entire purpose of my including the bit you quoted there was to explicitly exclude that sort of behavior.