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ldng on April 2, 2025 | parent | context | favorite | on: Wikipedia is struggling with voracious AI bot craw...

That is not an excuse. Wikipedia isn't just any site.

wslh on April 2, 2025 [–]

Not an excuse, a plausible explanation of what's actually happening.

franktankbank on April 2, 2025 | [–]

Also plausibly they are trying to kill the site via soft ddos. Then they can sell a service based on all the data they scraped + unauditable censoring.

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