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- phdelightfulI just put Anubis in front of my self-hosted forge this morning because AmazonBot had helped itself to 750 GiB (!) of traffic to my public repos this month!At least, it claimed to be AmazonBot…
- jacobnI just complained to them the other day! They were scraping our weather website to no end, very much including the disallowed path prefixes.Did end up just adding them to our WAF blocklist, which is weirdly ironic - hosting on their infra & using their services to block their AI scraper...
- bstsb> Get Outlook for Macthis bit made me laugh. was the email drafted in Outlook? was it sent to some sort of forwarding mailbox, or did they just BCC every customer in?
- captn3m0Good place to ask, saw a new AWS User agent in logs today: Amazon-Quick-on-Behalf-of-$HEXIDI found a mention on some user agent trackers but no official documentation. Anyone knows if it’s documented? Asking because I am seeing decent traffic (30GB/week) from this.
- TurdF3rgusonWhy does Amazonbot even exist, can someone explain? I don't understand why an ecommerce play would be crawling other websites.
- TrackerFFIs it just me, or is it extra unethical and self-serving when crawlers from say Amazon(Bot) decides to incessantly crawl AWS hosted websites? Same goes for Google and Microsoft crawlers crawling GC and Azure.By that, I mean the types of crawls that can hog up significant usage.
- arjieHuh, I get a lot of traffic from Amazonbot (relative to humans) and try as I might, it would get stuck in a tarpit of no creation because it would sit there and keep blasting every variation of my recent pages because Mediawiki lists many links. I have them appropriately nofollow and warning the bot not to waste its time with robots.txt but it just goes and sticks itself on nonsense internal pages.The traffic isn't a problem. I've got Cloudflare in front and the machine itself is relatively overpowered, and downtime isn't critical. But I'd just like the thing to be able to spider me properly. Someone did point out to me that maybe I wasn't receiving actual Amazonbot but some other spider: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46352723
- namegulfRobots.txt is lame BTW, there is no way to enforce it. It is up to the bot to decide to crawl or not and most cases they don't care.Cloudflare had a nice technic to address the bot problem (if you use their name servers). It'll respect and use the robots.txt while sending the remaining bots to a deep black hole.
- vindinrobots.txt is merely a gentleman’s courtesy at this point. Nobody is obligated to follow it.
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