Click here: to donate by Credit Card
Or here: to donate by PayPal
Or by mail to: Free Republic, LLC - PO Box 9771 - Fresno, CA 93794
Thank you very much and God bless you.
Posted on 09/01/2025 1:41:35 PM PDT by nickcarraway
|
|
Click here: to donate by Credit Card Or here: to donate by PayPal Or by mail to: Free Republic, LLC - PO Box 9771 - Fresno, CA 93794 Thank you very much and God bless you. |
Yep, I am done with Cloudflare. I stop and dump the tab, screw them... I’m not going to support the site and will go elsewhere.
I’ve never seen a single Freeper who was a Zeeper. I’ve seen posters who don’t like Putin, but I’ve never seen a single one who love Zelensky. Can you prove they exist?
Yes, but since you are paying them, they can prove you were actually the one doing it - there are credit card records. It might as well be a signed confession.
Do you have one you recommend?
But are they any good?
But how would one get to content like your without a Search Engine?
It all makes sense to me - NOW
There are (unspoken) things happening.
but this now makes perfect sense as to
why some of these things are happening.
Who gives them a credit card?
Buy a visa card with cash. No record.
Use a free, throw away email account. No record.
You are only a product if you want to be.
I don’t get what the bots are looking for. What “content”? What of value are they “raiding”?
Yep... Been warning for a year now, it is the Beast. But the greedy do not care at all how much this tech costs OTHERS. All they care about is themselves and their own selfishness...
Here is a reality the greedy idiots have not thought about. The FR pays for hosting depending on how much Bandwidth traffic is exchanged. Not they are paying a whole bunch extra bot AI bots burning up Bandwidth so that someone else can benefit from it. The FR is paying for someone else’s AI use... A LOT of someone else’s...
The first thing I would do right now is block “Bot” access for everything but just a few popular normal search engine webcrawlers.
“But how would one get to content like your without a Search Engine?”
AI and search engines are totally different critters. Search engine bots only hit your site a few times a week. These AI bots are overwhelming sites just like a DDoS attack.
The AI appetite is way too HUGE and aggressive...
So, the AI is just using the info to crunch. I know some writers are suing AI companies for using their works without permission.
“So, the AI is just using the info to crunch. I know some writers are suing AI companies for using their works without permission.”
Exactly right. But the big issue is the huge load it is putting on servers because there is just so much of it from so many sources... The more load on a site, the more it costs the site owner to keep their site up because of that huge extra load. And what do the site owners get? Nothing but added costs and stolen content...
It is really bad and needs some controls put in place so that website owners can defend themselves from being overwhelmed by it...
“ I’ve never seen a single Freeper who was a Zeeper.”
*********************************
Ye shall know them by their ZEEPS. They also tend to deny the existence of ZEEPERS and frequently live off of OTHER-PEOPLE’S-MONEY as they seldom carry their share of the weight and contribute.
I am the IT guy for some large websites. One gets over 120 million monthly pageviews. It gets hammered by AI-related bots, but we’ve got good caching, and know how to deal with bots and such.
AI web crawlers can be a problem for some sites, but not for those with quality hosting.
So the big established guys are protected and the little and medium sized guys get hammered.
Now just who would that benefit?
I agree. The internet is becoming useless, unless you are buying something and even that is becoming a PIA.
I am close to retirement and once I hang up my hat I wil likely stop using a computer except to do my taxes.
Screw the little guys - how is it my problem is their under-capitalized?
/sarc
And they will also be in favor of prohibiting the smaller websites from using anything but top of the line extremely expensive measures to defend themselves.
It's the "Saturday Night Special" rule. Small cheap guns must be taken off the market because poor people might use them to defend themselves. Yes they said it was to "fight crime" but in reality you do that by locking up criminals. Which they were and are curiously reluctant to do.
If you could not afford to buy a top of the line name brand firearm you obviously did not deserve to carry. The Second Amendment did not apply to you.
Disclaimer: Opinions posted on Free Republic are those of the individual posters and do not necessarily represent the opinion of Free Republic or its management. All materials posted herein are protected by copyright law and the exemption for fair use of copyrighted works.