unrequested scrapers and aggregators (and AI)

candyether.space · 4 days ago · discuss

so i was reading through my apache logs just nowi like going through and seeing what rss readers people are using since its not fancy or anything enough to return location dataits also interesting to see what bots are hitting my feedunfortunately, it seems like some aggregators have found it somehow? maybe from scraping bubbles or somethingi dont usually mind, since its usually just a smallweb thing and maybe i could get some new readers off itthe one i found today is not. one of those. at all.brisk.news seems to be some kind of service for people too lazy to read anything and want the ai to regurgitate stuffyet also is too lazy to go to google and use their dumb ai or literally any other ai systemit doesnt seem to have any kind of source list or contact system, so i dont know how bad it isbut while trying to see if my articles were listed it also seemed to include a bunch of other small blogssome random neocities sources and even some from more serious bloggers like gordon mcleanso i imagine its scraping a lot of writing and shoving it into the stupid ai systemthe worst part is it didnt even get the right feed from meits ONLY scraping the comic feed, not even the actual writing feed, so it doesnt even work to "summarize" anything of mineunless you want like snippits of dialouge slopifiedi dont know how far back this has been going on but if anyone knows how to get blogs off the service please reach out