Bots are currently scraping the internet for LLM training data at unprecedented rates[1][2][3], driving up costs and destabilizing public-facing websites. I want to talk about how this has been particularly difficult for wikis, and has gotten much worse in the last few months.
No. CF lost years ago, and the checks can be bypassed easily. It’s just that it blacklists ips generating insane traffic but there is a lot of margin
I put my little blog behind Cloudflare because I was tired of it going down due to scrapers overwhelming my little VPS.
I’ll admit that I am a newbie, so I ask in ignorance: have you tried using Anubis + BadBotBlocker + Fail2Ban?
It genuinely worked wonders for my tiny site that was being bombarded.
Crawlers have never been a problem for me as my internet subscription is unlimited. My experience comes from being the one crawling sites and bypassing the CF challenge