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FOSS infrastructure is under attack by AI companies (thelibre.news)
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LLM scrapers are taking down FOSS projects' infrastructure, and it's getting worse.

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[–] sudo@programming.dev 1 points 5 days ago

Wanting to not get fingerprinted is totally fair. I'm just stating what will and won't work at scale. But please understand, you're ability to view the internet anonymously is wholly equivalent to a bots.