AI bots strain Wikimedia as bandwidth surges 50% - Ars Technica

[rcjordan]

>incognito

Happens to my when not using incognito. Here's what I'm running.

[rcjordan]

I doubt many of the average retail users will trip it.

[rcjordan]

"Bro, ban me at the IP level if you don't like me!" - The Boston Diaries - Captain Napalm

https://boston.conman.org/2025/08/21.1

[ergophobe]

I think Privacy Badger, uBlock Origin and Ad Nauseum might all trip up Cloudflare.

If you think about it, most bot crawlers are not going to be able to handle third-party cookies, so that's a signal to Cloudflare.

I have noticed for the last few years I have spikes where I exceed CPU usage limits despite not having a huge number of page views. I know it's bots, but I wonder how much is just your old school probes and how much is AI crawlers.

I use CF for many sites, but not all since sometimes it caused an issue here or there... but I can't remember what

[rcjordan]

stolen from bsky;

[Rumbas]

Amen. These AI bots are going nuts atm. 2.7M requests on one site in a week.

[ergophobe]

Finally went into Cloudflare and turned on
 - AI Labyrinth on non-revenue sites
 - Block AI Crawlers on all sites
 - Bot Fight Mode on all sites

It's kind of astounding what CF offers for free if you have a low-traffic site (or, in my case, several which are in some cases just parked domains now but which can still get blasted by bots)

[rcjordan]

The Internet Is No Longer A Safe Haven | Brain Baking

https://brainbaking.com/post/2025/10/the-internet-is-no-longer-a-safe-haven/

[rcjordan]

There is an internal server error on Cloudflare's network.

 Internal server error Error code 500
Visit cloudflare.com for more information.
2025-11-18 13:09:02 UTC

www.theregister.com


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Cloudflare timed out on Yeggi just prior to trying theregister link

[rcjordan]

Debbie said this was likely a widespread failure.  /r agreed. has meme.

that was a nice 20-minute apocalypse! : memes
https://old.reddit.com/r/memes/comments/1p0agab/that_was_a_nice_20minute_apocalypse/

[rcjordan]

memes running hot now

This one is good

Cloudflare is down. : meme
https://old.reddit.com/r/meme/comments/1p0b372/cloudflare_is_down/

[ergophobe]

Service Outage
https://xkcd.com/3170/