I don’t blame them, I also think the pay wall stops AI from stealing everything as well. I just wish they had a $5 tier. It seemed to be one of the big comments on the video, and I agree with it. Sure its less, but I would imagine the extra people gained from that tier would certainly help since its lost money at the moment.
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TastyWheat@lemmy.world 10 months ago
Me: scrolling looks good! L Website: This section is available to paid supporters only. Me: …
HeyJoe@lemmy.world 10 months ago
pirateKaiser@sh.itjust.works 10 months ago
As someone who works for a paywallled website, that’s hardly a deterrent. If the site is important enough, they will pay for accounts and crawl until the server melts
HeyJoe@lemmy.world 10 months ago
Is there any true way to block it? Does the crawler literally use the same access (443) as us to scrape content? If so, the only other thing I can think of is to block all known IP’s that AI crap originates from, but that sounds daunting and impossible to catch everything.
pirateKaiser@sh.itjust.works 10 months ago
There’s no fullproof way. Even if you somehow block every crawling automation, there’s still puppeteering where the bot behaves just like a normal user.
LunchEnjoyer@lemmy.world 10 months ago
Its viewer funded yes. As described in the video parts of the website will be locked for paid supporters. Iml a solid thing to support these days of AI piss everywhere.
im_john_here@programming.dev 10 months ago
How else do you expect them to pay for something that’s not driven by ads or selling the day-to-day to AI?
GreyCat@lemmy.world 10 months ago
That’s in the home page yeah, it’s makde kind of weirdly yea, with a sorft of fake “pop-up”. But you can still access the News and Features without limitations I think… ?