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AI crawler wars threaten to make the web more closed for everyone

7 pointsby yarapavan3 months ago

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bediger40003 months ago
I think this article underestimates the proportion of crawler traffic. Big companies like Google, Apple, and some grey area companies like Ahrefs, Bytedance, and Yandex are easy to count. But there&#x27;s a ton of probably automated GET requests that use user agents typical of human driven browsers. A real browser will ask for images, JavaScript, CSS files after a GET of an HTML file, these probably automated GETs don&#x27;t have those linked to GETs.<p>I strongly believe that we f you could count the probably automated requests accurately, human driven requests would be a very low proportion of all requests, less than 30%.