Crawlers are endemic. Now representing half of all internet traffic, they will soon outpace human traffic. This unseen subway ...

The recent surge in grocery prices, specifically the price of eggs, has led to a wave of memes sharing photos of barren ...

Hello fellow web crawlers! Andrew here. Welcome to today’s edition of web_crawlr .

Tarpits were originally designed to waste spammers' time and resources, but creators like Aaron have now evolved the tactic ...

These web crawlers, created by the San Francisco-based company, are said to have stretched some businesses' online bandwidth to the limit, even disregarding instructions to ignore specific websites.

Web crawlers for AI models often do not stop at copyright protection either – The Nepenthes tool sets a trap for them. Web crawlers play a central role in the race for the best AI model ...

Over the past several days, we’ve made some changes at MacStories to address the ingestion of our work by web crawlers operated by artificial intelligence companies. We’ve learned a lot, so we thought ...

Last week, Federico and I asked Robb Knight to do what he could to block web crawlers deployed by artificial intelligence companies from scraping MacStories. Robb had already updated his own site’s ...