Today in the scraperpocalypse... (opens in new tab)

It has become more frequent for someone to contact me saying "I can't access your sites from my phone / cable modem", and on the few occasions when they tell me what their IP is, it turns out that, yup, that IP did some extremely obvious AI scraper bullshit and got shitcanned for a month. I have no way of knowing how often collateral damage like this happens, since by definition they aren't ...