hylobates@jlai.lu to Selfhosted@lemmy.worldEnglish · 9 days agoBased on this graph, and this graph alone, guess at what time I completely blocked OpenAI crawlersjlai.luimagemessage-square80fedilinkarrow-up1589arrow-down18file-text
arrow-up1581arrow-down1imageBased on this graph, and this graph alone, guess at what time I completely blocked OpenAI crawlersjlai.luhylobates@jlai.lu to Selfhosted@lemmy.worldEnglish · 9 days agomessage-square80fedilinkfile-text
minus-squarepoVoq@slrpnk.netlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1·2 days agoFor static sites, yes. To actually protect dynamic sites against AI crawlers, Cloudflare has to do much more than just caching. And besides that, Cloudflare is a huge single point of failure and highly privacy invasive.
minus-squareFreedomAdvocate@lemmy.net.aulinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1·21 hours agoDynamic sites still get cached. Cloudflare definitely is a huge single point of failure, and it is a huge problem imo - but what can we do? Their product is so widely used because of how comprehensive, good, and necessary it is.
For static sites, yes. To actually protect dynamic sites against AI crawlers, Cloudflare has to do much more than just caching.
And besides that, Cloudflare is a huge single point of failure and highly privacy invasive.
Dynamic sites still get cached.
Cloudflare definitely is a huge single point of failure, and it is a huge problem imo - but what can we do? Their product is so widely used because of how comprehensive, good, and necessary it is.