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   Gabriele Svelto (gabrielesvelto@fosstodon.org)'s status on Friday, 11-Apr-2025 00:18:50 JST Gabriele Svelto

   Today during a meeting it was mentioned that the front-end for Firefox' main source code repository [1] was super slow because of... AI scrapers! Surprise surprise! The team had to go through quite a bit of effort to curb the traffic. Also, can you think of something more stupid than scraping sources hosted in a version control system by scraping the web front-end?

   [1] https://hg.mozilla.org/

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     Hubert Figuière (hub@cosocial.ca)'s status on Friday, 11-Apr-2025 00:19:57 JST Hubert Figuière

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     @gabrielesvelto ... and it's like artificial flavour...

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     Hubert Figuière (hub@cosocial.ca)'s status on Friday, 11-Apr-2025 00:19:58 JST Hubert Figuière

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     @gabrielesvelto yeah I can think of more stupid.

     Their intelligence is artificial....