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Reddit tightens Old Reddit access to fight AI bots
Reddit will soon require users to have accessed Old Reddit within the last six months to keep using it, part of a broader crackdown on scraping.
The Verge · 1m
Samsung and LG remove botnet apps from smart TVs
Samsung and LG pledge to delete apps that turned TVs into AI scraping machines but over 40% of webOS apps had botnet code.
TechRadar · 1m
Cloudflare's plan to save the web from AI
Matthew Prince says bots now outnumber humans online. His company is building technology to make AI companies pay for the content they scrape.
The Verge · 4m
The Wayback Machine is fighting bots, and losing you
The Internet Archive's bot defenses are catching real readers, and AI scrapers are the reason the shields went up.
PCMAG · 1m