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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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I was up 10 to 20 percent month over month, and suddenly up 1000% it has spiked hard and they all are data harvesters.
I know I am going to start blocking them, which is too bad, I put valuable technical information up, with no advertising, because I want to share it. And I don't even really mind indexers or even AI learning about it. But I cannot sustain this kind of bullshit traffic, so I will end up taking a heavy hand and blocking everything, and then no one will find it.