• sp3ctr4l@lemmy.zip
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    10 hours ago

    Amazing.

    I remember 20 years ago when this kind of bullshit would happen upon your tiny community forum board… but it would be Chinese or Russian bot nets.

    God help anyone trying to fight off Amazon.

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      13 hours ago

      From the article:

      It’s futile to block AI crawler bots because they lie, change their user agent, use residential IP addresses as proxies, and more.

      EDIT(2025-01-17 17:50 UTC): … The bots are still hammering away from a different IP every time. About 10% of the requests do not have the amazonbot user agent …