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tommek4077 6 months ago | parent | context | favorite | on: We can't have nice things because of AI scrapers

But serving HTML is unbelievably cheap, isn't it?

tclancy 6 months ago | [–]

Run 72,000 database queries to generate a bunch of random HTML files no one has asked for in five years is not, especially compared to downloading the files designed for it.

chlorion 6 months ago | [–]

It adds up very quickly.

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