Based on this graph, and this graph alone, guess at what time I completely blocked OpenAI crawlers
from hylobates@jlai.lu to selfhosted@lemmy.world on 13 Feb 08:30
https://jlai.lu/post/33101881

I really hope they die soon, this is unbearable…

A graph of MySQL queries showing a violent drop in requests after blocking OpenAI Crawlers

#selfhosted

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Decronym@lemmy.decronym.xyz on 13 Feb 09:40 next collapse

Acronyms, initialisms, abbreviations, contractions, and other phrases which expand to something larger, that I’ve seen in this thread:

Fewer Letters More Letters
CGNAT Carrier-Grade NAT
DNS Domain Name Service/System
Git Popular version control system, primarily for code
HTTP Hypertext Transfer Protocol, the Web
IP Internet Protocol
NAT Network Address Translation
nginx Popular HTTP server

5 acronyms in this thread; the most compressed thread commented on today has 6 acronyms.

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quick_snail@feddit.nl on 13 Feb 18:00 collapse

Y’all need to learn to cache things, shiit

poVoq@slrpnk.net on 13 Feb 21:54 collapse

This is not how things work on the modern web. Did you just wake up from a 20 year coma?

FreedomAdvocate@lemmy.net.au on 15 Feb 00:49 collapse

Whenever you’re browsing even a semi popular website these days there’s probably a 98% chance you’re hitting a cloudflare cached version of it. Have you been asleep the last 10 years?

poVoq@slrpnk.net on 20 Feb 01:17 collapse

For static sites, yes. To actually protect dynamic sites against AI crawlers, Cloudflare has to do much more than just caching.

And besides that, Cloudflare is a huge single point of failure and highly privacy invasive.

FreedomAdvocate@lemmy.net.au on 21 Feb 15:12 collapse

Dynamic sites still get cached.

Cloudflare definitely is a huge single point of failure, and it is a huge problem imo - but what can we do? Their product is so widely used because of how comprehensive, good, and necessary it is.