RIP the Internet.
>>107616954This is an important juncture in your life. Think carefully before you proceed.
>>107616954Silicon n****r
werks for me
>>107616987good goy, show that fingerprint
I still don't really understand the fear of bots. Shouldn't all sites just throttle every IP? Or is this like how sites would store plaintext passwords well into the late 2000s and even today we send passwords as plaintext to the server just because programmers are lazy retards.
>>107616991not so fast chud you'll have to take it off my dead hands
>>107616954I feel bad for any AI that had to read HN
>>107616994It's not fear. Their advertisers are angry about paying millions of dollars for ad impressions and the bots are eating up 40% or more of the spend. I'm pretty sure it's a huge problem with Reddit and Twitter in particular.
>>107617033HN has no ads, retard.
>>107617033That does explain a lot eg why "logging in" suddenly alleviates all concerns
>>107617042Don't call me a retard for not knowing HN has no ads. It either means I use good ad blockers or don't go on HN, both of which are very positive signs for intelligence.
>>107617074I called you retarded because you clearly have no clue why AI is bad for forums. it has nothing to do with ads, it has everything to do with stealing content and being used to manipulate users.
Sites wouldn't be scraped if they shared a JSON database with all their data. They are 100% the ones to blame.
>>107616994>I still don't really understand the fear of bots.They're angry because they haven't figured out a way to charge competing AI companies for access to the data. These faggots want to either have exclusive rights to the data you've submitted for free to train their own LLMs or they want third parties to pay for access to the data you gave them for free.They really don't give a fuck about anyone having access to the data. They care about the fact that if you scrape using https/their API you aren't paying them for access like the ad companies have been paying them for decades.
>>107617086I guess I'm well beyond the point of expecting site administrators to act in ways other than to line their own pockets. It's easy to just guess a greedy reason and be right 95% of the time.
>>107617086>I called you retarded because you clearly have no clue why AI is bad for forums.HN and reddit are not "forums". They're "social platforms" that were directly responsible for helping kill independent forums. HN and reddit only exist to trick users into reading propaganda and manipulating the few users dumb enough to sign up and participate in them. Who think these platforms are actually pro-free speech and there is actual discussion happening. In reality anyone and anything of importance is instantly buried under a mountain of bots down voting while hand picked propaganda is upboated and the only thing 99% of visitors can see.
>>107617111I mean, sure. one extra effect of having bots hit your website >>107617124>HN and reddit are not "forums". They're "social platforms" that were directly responsible for helping kill independent forums>t.retardhow the fuck does HN compare to reddit? HN is not a social platform, is a content aggregator, and its voting system has nothing to do with reddit, retard.stop making shit up, dumbass.also, I bet you think 4chan is not being manipulated. lol, lmao even.
>>107617150>I mean, sure. one extra effect of having bots hit your website... is the high volume of traffic, which affects resource consumption. but that's yet another reason to block bots.I got distracted, sorry
>>107617150>how the fuck does HN compare to reddit?They're both retarded digg clones. There is absolutely nothing of value on either. Neither of them are forums.>stop making shit up, dumbassHow many forums have you owned? How long did you contribute to multiple forum software projects? I'm guessing the answer to both is 0.>I bet you think 4chan isn't a honeypotWe're all well aware of this fact.You're here crying about HN. That's why everyone knows you're a massive faggot. Nothing of value was ever posted on HN and nothing of value ever will be. Who the fuck cares what a bunch of scam artists and trannys think.
>>107617042
well, they added a new message:>(This most commonly happens when someone is trying to crawl HN from the same network.)I fucking hate being behind a CGNAT...
oh no not orange reddit too!
>>107616954As does literally everybody with even half a brain?
>>107616954> Blocked by HNThat's mildly infuriating. I was actually just reading about how HN leverages Go to block AI scrapers on Adam Wackoyski's blog [0]. There's also some wholesome reading about this issue on Craig Peck's blog [1] and also some genuinely interesting insight on Matthew Parker's blog [2].
>>107617263One of the most positive effects of using a VPN.
>>107616954HN is pretty sensitive with this stuff. I've been temp banned for middle clicking (open in new tab) 5-6 comment links in a row because I wanted to read them all.
