Subj : Re: Nifty desktop compari To : Barry Martin From : Ky Moffet Date : Mon Mar 31 2025 10:32:00 BARRY MARTIN wrote: > KM> See "The Linux Experiment" channel on YT today. He talks about > KM> how recently the AI crawlers are clogging up the works, to the > KM> point of being a giant internet-wide DDOS attack. One outfit had > KM> to block all of Brazil to shut down the excessive traffic. It's > KM> knocked some Gitlab repositories offline, and is costing everyone > KM> a lot in bandwidth. > > And I was reading the new crawlers ignore the "do not enter" command > many websites have. Not that wasn't ignored some with the previous > generation, just seemed more like following a gentleman's agreement type > of thing. Yeah, robots.txt is really voluntary, and some rude ones ignore it. > I read "Not Always Right" (from my retail days - misery loves company!) HA! Tho the site asked if it could add me to Google's Tracking. NO. There's a site to never visit with javascript active. And they've made the big time, TVTropes. https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Website/NotAlwaysRight > and noticed comments were unavailable == normally don't bother with the > comments -- they or someone must have disconnected Discus for that > reason. Disqus is working today. But it's been coming and going on other sites lately, so it's some problem with Disqus. Also sometimes it takes a very long time to show up. And where it's gone away... if the site has its own affiliate links, this is theft. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Disqus#Affiliate_links_and_third-party_scripts þ RNET 2.10U: ILink: Techware BBS þ Hollywood, Ca þ www.techware2k.com --- QScan/PCB v1.20a / 01-0462 * Origin: ILink: CFBBS | cfbbs.no-ip.com (454:1/1) .