Collateral damage
Collateral damage
Posted Aug 29, 2026 17:00 UTC (Sat) by mb (subscriber, #50428)In reply to: Collateral damage by hDF
Parent article: Ryabitsev: Creepy crawlies
It's pretty upsetting when it gets blocked
It's equally upsetting, though, if my infrastructure that I pay money for is being DDoSed. Therefore, I (try to) block people who misuse my services. It's as simple as that.
And yes, an AI agent scraping cgit (or similar interfaces) is a misuse, exactly like an AI crawler scraping cgit is a misuse. This is nothing new. It dates back to the 90s that heavy and scripted use of web APIs is considered misuse and such people have always been blocked.
If you don't like being blocked, tell your AI agent to be a polite "citizen", slow down and behave like a human reading the page.