in the perfect world we would have a very high trust internet in which everyone follows the rules, checks robots.txt, rate limits, etc. But we don't live in such a world. Getting angry at these ai bots is useless. People should start considering what and how they host their data. If you're worried about bandwidth costs you have many alternatives to host your data for free or at a very little cost. i.e: github/gitlab/cloudflare.
If you're worried about your data getting scraped and used then maybe you can consider putting it behind a login or do some proof of work/soft captcha. Yeah, this isn't perfect but it will keep most dumb bots away.
Some people are hosting their sites like we're still in 1995 and times have changed.
If you're worried about your data getting scraped and used then maybe you can consider putting it behind a login or do some proof of work/soft captcha. Yeah, this isn't perfect but it will keep most dumb bots away.
Some people are hosting their sites like we're still in 1995 and times have changed.