Imposter 'Amazonbot' Sparks Web Admins' Fury with Rampant Scraping
A fraudulent 'Amazonbot' has been wreaking havoc on Git servers, imitating an Amazon crawler but behaving in ways that defy the real Amazonbot's practices. With rotating residential IPs and a total disregard for robots.txt, this imposter bot has led affected servers into instability and inflated costs, highlighting a significant misuse of AI-driven web scrapers.
Jan 20