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		nomel 9 months ago \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Devs say AI crawlers dominate traffic, forcing blo... What happens if you use the proper rate limiting status of 429? It includes a next retry time [1]. I'm curious what (probably small) fraction would respect it. [1] https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/HTTP/Reference/...

karlgkk 9 months ago [–]

Probably makes sense for a b2b app where you publish status codes as part of the api

Bad actors don’t care and annoying actors would make fun of you for it on twitter

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