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Also it doesn't respect
robots.txt(the file that tells bots whether or not a given page can be accessed) unlike most AI scrapping bots.My personal website that primarily functions as a front end to my home server has been getting BEAT by these stupid web scrapers. Every couple of days the server is unusable because some web scraper demanded every single possible page and crashed the damn thing
My god... It's true. TikTok does access the home wifi network! https://youtu.be/OSQ76ZrHmd4
/s
ObviouslyFunnily enough, the bot everyone identified as tik tok hasn't hit me as far as I'm aware. It's mostly been random LLM bots grabbing data to train.