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Based on this graph, and this graph alone, guess at what time I completely blocked OpenAI crawlers
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I really hope they die soon, this is unbearable…
this post was submitted on 13 Feb 2026
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Reference for lazy ones: https://zadzmo.org/code/nepenthes/
Oh interesting! Ive done something similar but not didnt put as much effort.
For me, I just made an unending webpage that would create a link to another page...that would say bullshit. Then it would have another link with more bullshit....etc...etc...And it gets slower as time goes on.
Also made a fail2ban banning IPs that reached a certain number of links down. It worked really well, traffic is down 95% and it does not affect any real human users. Its great :)
I have a robots.txt that should tell them not to look at the sites. But if they dont want to read it, I dont want to be nice.
This... is fucking amazing
Success?
How wonderfully devious