alt Hacker NewsI'm having lots of connections every day from Singapor. It's now the main country... despite the whole website being French-only. AI crawlers, for sure.
Thanks for this tip.
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input_sh • today at 10:11 AM
Fun fact: you don't get rid of them even when you put a captcha on all visitors from Singapore. I still see a spike in traffic that perfectly matches the spike in served captchas, but this time it's geographically distributed between places like Iraq, Bangladesh and Brazil.
Hopefully it at least costs them a little bit more.
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Amazonbot does this despite my efforts in robots.txt to help it out. I look at all the Singapore requests and they’re Amazonbot trying to get various variants of the Special:RecentChanges page. You’re wasting your time, Amazonbot. I’m trying to help you.