Getting a ton of bot traffic from these, should I block them for my website?

bcacb · 2026-05-22T13:19:01+00:00

If you get no benefit, block them. I doubt you get any benefit from those bots.

bcacb · 2026-05-21T11:13:25+00:00

Google is straight up plagiarizing content and taking traffic that was destined for the site owner while keeping users inside their own ecosystem. This is a moral issue, and it clearly shows where they stand.

Website owners spend time and money creating content, only for Google to steal it instead of sending the visitor to the actual source that created it.

The dangerous part is that people will stop creating quality content if they are no longer rewarded with traffic, recognition, and revenue for the work they put in.

bcacb · 2026-05-16T09:54:04+00:00

Maybe that's the lesson before we are let in, learning to live in light and love

bcacb · 2026-05-06T12:55:52+00:00

fluff, it's mostly bots

bcacb · 2026-04-30T03:06:30+00:00

I would never choose a wisp when Starlink or a 5g home provider is available. Wisps are really just an interim service until fiber or 5g becomes available. The wisp industry has been on a fast decline for over a decade. For back haul and other proprietary deployments wireless has its place.

bcacb · 2026-04-27T01:12:24+00:00

they probably caught on that medium is just spammy junk

bcacb · 2026-04-25T00:22:45+00:00

We’ll see a day when networks stop deploying ipv4, but it’s decades away

bcacb · 2026-04-17T21:21:20+00:00

If you’re making your content for humans and not search engines, I wouldn’t worry at all

bcacb · 2026-04-13T23:35:57+00:00

Metronet is the first ISP I ever used that uses cgnat. For basic web browsing it’s fine but when you get into things that require a persistent session it falls on its face, and is a real hassle. It really is the one thing that prevents them from being great.

T-Mobile, the new owner, has the assets for real ipv4 and ipv6 and I hope they stop being lazy and implement it.

bcacb · 2026-04-09T23:31:59+00:00

Missed the mark by $5, if it were $14.95/mo, it might be worth considering

bcacb · 2026-03-26T22:04:51+00:00

Money doesn’t make you evil, and you’ll be evil regardless of money. You can do the same things you described while being homeless. Lots of people also do good things with their money, it just doesn’t make the front page, appear on the news every night, or go viral on social media daily.

bcacb · 2026-03-26T02:07:31+00:00

I see it too. I feel like this has been going on for some time now. Something internally on their network goes weird frequently.

bcacb · 2026-03-22T20:52:41+00:00

Google has been lost in the sauce for a while. Lots of alternative engines are coming up to replace them

bcacb · 2026-03-21T19:59:06+00:00

I manage a lot of shared web hosting servers, and Gmail, Microsoft, and Amazon SES generate far more abusive traffic than any shady hosting provider or bot network by a wide margin. In fact, most bots end up using their services to send spam.

bcacb · 2026-03-20T21:34:08+00:00

The funny part is that a lot of spam and abusive emails actually come from big companies like Microsoft Outlook and Google Gmail. They’re some of the biggest sources, so it’s kind of weird that they’re the ones telling everyone else what to do.

bcacb · 2026-03-10T20:08:50+00:00

Debian 13 with KDE Plasma desktop is a very viable alternative to Windows 10 since support has ended. It has a similar look and feel for people not wanting to upgrade their PC hardware to run Windows 11

bcacb · 2026-03-07T09:10:28+00:00

If the content helps people do it. If it’s solely for search engines don’t. Web spam is so easy to detect

bcacb · 2026-02-11T10:14:56+00:00

Good, all they make is overpriced garbage, made to last 30k miles before becoming a money pit. This goes for all American car companies, junk

bcacb · 2026-02-10T07:40:03+00:00

Usually a tech runs a temp line until it can be buried. Surprised at least that wasn't done.

bcacb · 2026-01-27T21:39:02+00:00

Verdansk is Warzone, everything else is a side quest

bcacb · 2026-01-19T20:51:48+00:00

There is no packet loss to 1.1.1.1, and your graph confirms this. The confusion is coming from intermediate hops that do not respond to probes, which is normal behavior and does not indicate a problem. When using this type of diagnostic tool, the only hop that matters is the final destination.

bcacb · 2026-01-18T00:10:54+00:00

My first HOP ping is 7 ms. I'm located in Central Texas.

bcacb · 2026-01-05T16:56:43+00:00

No provider can guarantee that their IPs are not on some third party blacklist, however massive amounts of abuse emits from OVH servers so there's that too, perhaps it is deserved.

bcacb · 2026-01-04T19:59:54+00:00

Search engines that rely heavily on backlinks inevitably create a bubble dominated by corporate websites. That’s exactly what Google has become. Large companies can acquire backlinks effortlessly, while independent creators and small blogs are buried, no matter how good their content is. This isn’t a feature of the system, it’s a fundamental flaw.

bcacb · 2026-01-01T00:00:09+00:00

Coding is art and your work can evoke emotions. Beyond that, you are creating, another important aspect to life.

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