2.5 Admins 242: Malscraping

Jim’s server is getting hammered by AI scrapers and he’s big mad about it, why RCS doesn’t work on Android without Google apps, a complex Google account issue, and how Jim and Allan handle their WireGuard configs.   Plugs Support us on patreon and get an ad-free RSS feed with early episodes sometimes Network Offload and Socket Splicing (SO_SPLICE) in FreeBSD   News Jim hit by AI scrapers Open source devs say AI crawlers dominate traffic, forcing blocks on entire countries AI bots strain Wikimedia as bandwidth surges 50% 80% of Web Traffic Is Bots — The Hidden Cost of AI Scraping Threat Spotlight: The good, the bad, and the ‘gray bots’ – the Gen AI scraper bots targeting your web apps An AI Scraping Tool Is Overwhelming Websites With Traffic   Free consulting We were asked about RCS on AOSP, a complex Google account issue, and how Jim and Allan handle their WireGuard configs. wg-admin               See our contact page for ways to get in touch.