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Amazon's AI crawler is making my Git server unstable (xeiaso.net)

submitted 1 month ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 month 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.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 month ago

Maybe cloudflare?

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 month ago (1 children)

just drop their traffic at the ip level. works for me

[–] Limonene 6 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (3 children)

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 ...

[–] brlemworld 4 points 1 month ago

Could this be considered illegal computer hacking?

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 month ago

from my comment

works for me