Crawlers impact the operations of the Wikimedia projects(diff.wikimedia.org)
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Crawlers impact the operations of the Wikimedia projects
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Seems like a serious issue many sites have nowadays. I really don't want this solved by Captchas everywhere.
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If it comes to it, just block all known IP blocks of cloud providers.
There are likely a number of beneficial bots[0] running from cloud providers. And residential proxies are also widely available for very determined scrapers.
[0]: <https://stuartgeiger.com/talks/2013-08-03-wikisym-levee-brea...>
[0]: <https://stuartgeiger.com/talks/2013-08-03-wikisym-levee-brea...>
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