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Mastodon user celebrates thwarting AI data crawlers

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A Mastodon user expressed pride in their site's low score from an AI crawler designed to gather data and sell optimization services. The user highlighted their success in thwarting AI and bot accessibility tests, viewing it as a personal victory against unwanted data collection and commercialization. AI

IMPACT Highlights user resistance to AI data scraping and commercialization efforts.

RANK_REASON User-generated content expressing a personal opinion and reaction to AI data collection, not a significant industry event.

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Mastodon user celebrates thwarting AI data crawlers

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

    I am so proud of these numbers. This is from an AI crawler that gathers site data and sells you, the site owner, on how to optimise your site to be found and us

    I am so proud of these numbers. This is from an AI crawler that gathers site data and sells you, the site owner, on how to optimise your site to be found and used by AI. I cannot think of anything I would rather have less than this fucking service "page fails it, worth under a po…

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