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matthiasott.comWebspace Invaders · Matthias OttThere’s something happening on the Web at the moment that almost feels like watching that old arcade game Space Invaders play out across our servers. Bots and scrapers marching in formation, attacking...

Ric Le Poidevin

@riclep.dev

I had a similar problem on client websites, although admittedly a fair proportion of the traffic was bots scanning for WordPress vulnerabilities etc. I don't use WordPress but it hit my CMS API to see if the URLs exist. AI crawlers have just made this worse by crawling actual URLs.

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