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AI crawlers evade blocking by rotating IPs and forging User-Agent strings, disregarding robots.txt rules and rate limits.
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Sources
60%
Confidence
Medium-term (~90 days)
Relevance
8/9/2026
First Seen
Valid until: 11/7/2026
Sources
AI爬虫压垮Gentoo Bugzilla：开源基础设施面临数据掠夺危机
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