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Wow didn't realize it has comes to this. I guess the AI bots are ignoring the robots.txt now days huh, so just removing the index seems enough to stop the AI scrappers?

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Yep. I have my own small gitweb server, and I was getting literally thousands requests per second from bots who try to crawl through all the links.

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