Three strategies to deal with bot traffic. Give up. Have at it. Take what you want. As fast as you want. On my dime. Steal it. re-use it. Life is too short. Hide behind cloudflare. Let them try to deal with it. Have re-captchas annoy your users. Pay cloudflare and be up-sold. Understand more about it and do what you can to make it harder. Rage into the dying of the light. Etc. I completely understand option 1 and 2. Life is too short with other priorities to be in an un-winnable battle with bots that don't even know what robots.txt was supposed to be let alone read it let alone obey it. However in the spirit of stupidly writing an entire webgl/webgpu website without touching Cesium or Threejs, I'd rather understand more about it. So the other week I see in the logs that several entire net blocks from Alibaba data web hosting centers are essentially scraping the entire website all the leaf nodes in all the languages.…