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The Open-Source Software Saving the Internet From AI Bot Scrapers (www.404media.co)

submitted 5 days ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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[–] [email protected] 6 points 4 days ago (4 children)

So they make the internet worse for poor people? I could get through 20k in a second, but someone with just an old laptop would take a few minutes, no?

[–] [email protected] 5 points 4 days ago

Just wait till they hit my homepage with a 200mb react frontend, 9 seperate tracking / analytics scripts and generic shopify scripts on it :P

[–] [email protected] 5 points 4 days ago

Isn't that just the way things work in general though? If you have a worse computer, everything is going to be slower, broadly speaking.

[–] [email protected] 12 points 4 days ago

So they make the internet worse for poor people? I could get through 20k in a second, but someone with just an old laptop would take a few minutes, no?

i mean, kinda? you are absolutely right that someone with an old pc might need to wait a few extra seconds, but the speed is ultimately throttled by the browser

[–] [email protected] 6 points 4 days ago

Well, it's the scrapers that are causing the problem.