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Automated traffic—all non-human internet traffic—is growing eight times faster than human traffic, AI-driven traffic—traffic generated by or on behalf of AI systems—is the fastest-growing category of internet traffic, and for the first time, AI systems are not just reading the web but transacting on it.

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[–] JustEnoughDucks@slrpnk.net 5 points 22 hours ago (1 children)

Yeah my favorite electronics hobby supplies website has started to take 2-10 seconds to load. Still great service and the best selection of modules in my region though. They should really throw Anubis in front of it.

[–] melroy@kbin.melroy.org 3 points 21 hours ago (1 children)

Besides Anubis, is there any other tool that might work here?

I know about fail2ban and rate limiting configurations on Nginx level etc. But I mean, yes we have Anubis.. But aside of Anubis??

[–] JustEnoughDucks@slrpnk.net 1 points 13 hours ago

CrowdSec could probably catch a moderate amount of them, but that is really geared towards bad actors and malicious probing bots.

Fial2ban also wouldn't work at all here since they aren't trying brute force attacks, they are just using high bandwidth stealing as much public data from everything possible.

I think cloudflare is also making an alternative (or has already), but it is a tough problem.