• [$] Poisoning scraperbots with iocaine

    From LWN.net@86:200/23 to All on Fri Feb 13 06:40:09 2026


    Web sites are being increasingly beset by AI scraperbots - a problem that we have
    written about before, and which has slowly
    ramped up to an occasional de-facto DDoS attack. This has not gone
    uncontested, however: web site operators from around the world have been working on
    inventive countermeasures. These solutions target the problem posed by scraperbots in different ways;

    iocaine, a MIT-licensed nonsense generator, is designed
    to make scraped text less useful by poisoning it with fake data. The hope is to make running scraperbots not economically viable, and thereby address the problem at its root instead of playing an eternal game of Whac-A-Mole.

    https://lwn.net/Articles/1056953/
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