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How does a bot scraping your silly hobby sites for any purpose harm or negatively affect you in any way?





Only if they push me over my bandwidth limits but they can't do that if I just drop them on the floor.

Depends if they hit a site enough to make it cost something. It's not hard for bots to flood servers.



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