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Paolo Amoroso
@amoroso@oldbytes.space  ·  activity timestamp last month

The developer of Bear Blog on the latest wave of scrapers he faced.

They've depleted all human-created writing on the internet, and are becoming increasingly ravenous for new wells of content.

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I'm still speculating here, but I think [mobile] app developers have found another way to monetise their apps by offering them for free, and selling tunnel access to scrapers.

https://herman.bearblog.dev/agressive-bots

#ai #scrapers #crawlers

Herman's blog

Aggressive bots ruined my weekend

The web-scraping arm race continues
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