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It has become more frequent for someone to contact me saying "I can't access your sites from my phone / cable modem", and on the few occasions when they tell me what their IP is, it turns out that, yup, that IP did some extremely obvious AI scraper bullshit and got shitcanned for a month.

I have no way of knowing how often collateral damage like this happens, since by definition they aren't connecting to my site afterward. But anecdotally, telcos and cable companies...
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Bart Smit △ ⲁⲗⲍⲓⲙⲟⲛ 🇪🇺🇺🇦 · 6w
nostr:nprofile1qy2hwumn8ghj7un9d3shjtnyd968gmewwp6kyqpqeyszugs46q4ngd8tgeysnkwve20n9wewj42lac9cp7s2jrk52u2qjsh0ll Couldn't you could experiment with shorter or adaptive blocking periods? E.g.: First offence: block for a day. If not over after unblocking: block for a week. Then, a month. But of cou...