LMM
  • Communities
  • Create Post
  • Create Community
  • heart
    Support Lemmy
  • search
    Search
  • Login
  • Sign Up
fattyfoods@feddit.nl to Open Source@lemmy.ml · 2 days ago

The Open-Source Software Saving the Internet From AI Bot Scrapers

www.404media.co

external-link
message-square
105
link
fedilink
572
external-link

The Open-Source Software Saving the Internet From AI Bot Scrapers

www.404media.co

fattyfoods@feddit.nl to Open Source@lemmy.ml · 2 days ago
message-square
105
link
fedilink
Anubis, which block AI scrapers from scraping websites to death, has been downloaded almost 200,000 times.
  • PlantPowerPhysicist@discuss.tchncs.de
    link
    fedilink
    arrow-up
    31
    ·
    2 days ago

    the scrapers ignore robots.txt. It doesn’t really ban them - it just asks them not to access things, but they are programmed by assholes.

Open Source@lemmy.ml

opensource@lemmy.ml

Subscribe from Remote Instance

Create a post
You are not logged in. However you can subscribe from another Fediverse account, for example Lemmy or Mastodon. To do this, paste the following into the search field of your instance: !opensource@lemmy.ml

All about open source! Feel free to ask questions, and share news, and interesting stuff!

Useful Links

  • Open Source Initiative
  • Free Software Foundation
  • Electronic Frontier Foundation
  • Software Freedom Conservancy
  • It’s FOSS
  • Android FOSS Apps Megathread

Rules

  • Posts must be relevant to the open source ideology
  • No NSFW content
  • No hate speech, bigotry, etc

Related Communities

  • !libre_culture@lemmy.ml
  • !libre_software@lemmy.ml
  • !libre_hardware@lemmy.ml
  • !linux@lemmy.ml
  • !technology@lemmy.ml

Community icon from opensource.org, but we are not affiliated with them.

Visibility: Public
globe

This community can be federated to other instances and be posted/commented in by their users.

  • 526 users / day
  • 1.63K users / week
  • 3.34K users / month
  • 8.24K users / 6 months
  • 1 local subscriber
  • 38.7K subscribers
  • 532 Posts
  • 4.2K Comments
  • Modlog
  • mods:
  • Evan@lemmy.ml
  • kevincox@lemmy.ml
  • CrypticCoffee@lemmy.ml
  • Lettuce eat lettuce@lemmy.ml
  • BE: 0.19.12
  • Modlog
  • Legal
  • Instances
  • Docs
  • Code
  • join-lemmy.org