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AI haters build tarpits to trap and trick AI scrapers that ignore robots.txt(arstechnica.com)

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They will see a long string of base64 that takes a quarter of a second longer to load then a regular page. If it’s important to you, you can make the base64 string invisible and add some HTML to make it appear as a normal 404 page.

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