Comment on What steps can be taken to prevent AI training and scraping of my public facing website?
brewery@feddit.uk 3 days ago
Another option to reduce (but not eliminate) this traffic is a country limit. In cloudflare you can set a manual security rule to do this. There are self hosted options too but harder to setup. It depends what country you are and where your users are based. My website is a business one so I only allow my own country (and if on holiday I might open that country if I need to check it’s working, although usually I just use a paid vpn back to my country so no need). You can also block specific countries. So many of my blocked requests are from USA, China, Russia etc
moftasa@lemmy.ml 2 days ago
Please don’t do this. It is incredibly hostile to other people around the world. It is the recreation of broders but on the internet. Even if your website is a local business it is still useful for other people around the world to browse, compare things, get ideas. You never know but may be other people from around the world want to plan ahead before they travel or move. Perhaps others from your country want to browse your site while travelling.
brewery@feddit.uk 2 days ago
In an ideal world this should be the case but I can’t afford to do this practically and my business is a service, based on UK laws and requirements, available to UK residents only. The website is for information only and nothing is new or interesting to anybody but a few potential clients, and if theyre looking at it on holiday, theres something wrong with them! Nobody is going to reach out based on my website from abroad and if they did, I would not trust them at all. They would reach out through personal contacts or linkedin. If the bots stop spamming my site or server, I can stop limiting it.