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Comment by mikepavone

As someone with a self-hosted Mercurial instance dealing with this, I will say that the big names (OpenAI included, but not exclusively them) generally at least use proper user-agents and respect robots.txt, but they are still needlessly aggressive compared to traditional search indexers.

There are also scrapers that are hiding behind normal browser user agents. When I looked at IP ranges, at least some of them seemed to be coming from data centers in China.

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