Comment by ApeWithCompiler

Comment by ApeWithCompiler 9 hours ago

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The following is the best I could collect quickly to provide backup to the statement. Unfortunally it's not the high quality first instance of raw statistics I would have liked.

But from what I have read time to time the crawler acted magnitudes outside of what could have been accepted as just badly configured.

https://herman.bearblog.dev/the-great-scrape/

https://drewdevault.com/2025/03/17/2025-03-17-Stop-externali...

https://lwn.net/Articles/1008897/

https://tecnobits.com/en/AI-crawlers-on-Wikipedia-platform-d...

https://boston.conman.org/2025/08/21.1