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Mastodon blocks non-European IPs amid AI scraper surge

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Mastodon has begun blocking non-European IP addresses on its GitLab instance due to a significant increase in AI scrapers. This measure is a response to the overwhelming volume of automated data collection attempts targeting the platform. AI

IMPACT This action highlights the growing challenge of AI data scraping for online platforms and may prompt other services to consider similar protective measures.

RANK_REASON The item describes a platform implementing a technical measure to mitigate a specific type of automated traffic, rather than a core AI development or industry-wide event.

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Mastodon blocks non-European IPs amid AI scraper surge

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  1. Mastodon — mastodon.social TIER_1 English(EN) · [email protected] ·

    Yesterday I started blocking all non-European IP addresses on our Gitlab instance because of the huge flood of AI scrapers. Sad that we have to do these kind of

    Yesterday I started blocking all non-European IP addresses on our Gitlab instance because of the huge flood of AI scrapers. Sad that we have to do these kind of things # gitlab # crawlers # bots # AI

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