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AI · December 26, 2024

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Quixotic – a tool for wasting bot and LLM scraper time

I get a lot of bot traffic, most of which doesn't appear to respect robots.txt, so I made a tool to easily rewrite my content to serve to these bots instead. It consists of two components: quixotic - a command line tool that is static-site friendly to generate a copy of a website with some of the words replaced using a Markov generator. linkmaze - a web server that I can send the worst bots to. It generates 100% Markov content on the fly and with random links that also refer to linkmaze content.

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