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LLM crawlers are eating your bandwidth and you can't block your way out of it. Return a 403 and the scraper shrugs, rotates the IP, swaps the user-agent, and walks back in through a residential proxy an hour later. So a growing crowd of operators stopped blocking and started building mazes instead. Here's how to stand one up, and how to do it without nuking your own search ranking. Why blocking loses A hard block is a signal. The scraper reads the 403, learns your defense, and adapts around i...