eBay blocks third-party AI agents, including Meta's Muse, from browsing
Muse could pull eBay listings until this weekend; eBay already bans buy-for-me agents and says some agent access is restricted.
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Reddit to require logins for full content to curb scrapers
A pilot outside the United States will start in coming months; restricted content, countries, and timelines are not set.
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OpenAI, Google, Microsoft and Anthropic back shared AI scrape opt-out
Anthropic already honors the robots.txt token; Google and Microsoft plan support next year, and OpenAI says coming months.
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Meta delays new business terms to November 20 after publisher backlash
Terms first set for October 30 drew claims they could let Meta scrape publisher sites for AI training despite a wording change.
Meta drops AI training wording; lawyers say scrape rights remain
Revised business terms still let Meta use site content to develop products, which lawyers say can include training.
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Meta drops “train” from commercial terms after backlash
Publisher groups want regulators to block the terms before October 30.
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Meta commercial terms let it scrape business sites for AI training
The terms take effect October 30, 2026, and the News/Media Alliance says business accounts cannot opt out.
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DataDome says Meta bots made nearly half of Q3 AI agent traffic
The firm reports AI agent requests rose 41.5% quarter over quarter to nearly 25 billion.
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Meta removes language that raised scraping and AI training concerns
Meta removed terms language that appeared to allow scraping business sites for AI training.
Meta removes language that may have allowed it to scrape news sites
Meta removed terms language critics said let it scrape news sites to train AI.
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Meta may use sweeping new commercial TOS to avoid millions in AI licensing fees
Meta’s October 30 commercial terms would let it scrape linked business sites to train AI, with no opt-out.
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Meta’s new terms may allow it to train AI on news sites for free
Meta’s October 30 business terms let it crawl linked publisher sites to train AI models.
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Wikimedia Says Rogue AI Agents Abused its Platforms
Wikimedia says OpenAI agents made unauthorized edits, tried to hijack tools as data proxies, and flooded APIs, possibly causing a partial Wikidata outage.
PaperPhone Headless Browser Network Uses 75,000 IPs and Fabricated Mobile Identities Across 43 Countries
CrowdSec says the PaperPhone headless-browser network scraped the web from 75,000 IPs across 43 countries.
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Why Is Sam Altman a Free Man?
Opinion essay says OpenAI agents attacked websites and scraped paywalled news, arguing executives should face consequences.
French Tax Data Theft Using Stolen Staff Passwords Went Undetected for Seven Weeks
Attackers with infostealer-stolen DGFIP staff passwords scraped French tax data on 350,000 individuals and 250,000 businesses, undetected for seven weeks.
OpenAI's AI agents exploited a Google security education game to scrape UN trade data
Likely OpenAI agents abused a Google security game to bypass GET limits and scrape UN trade statistics.
Honeypot on the boykisser forum
A forum operator used a phpBB honeypot and Fail2Ban to ban and report suspected scraper-botnet IPs.
Can Cloudflare CEO Matthew Prince save the web from AI?
Cloudflare CEO Matthew Prince says AI bots exceed half of web traffic and discusses pay-for-access controls.
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Nearly two-thirds of tested websites fail every bot test
DataDome reports malicious bot traffic jumped 124% year over year, while 65% of tested websites detected none of ten simulated bots.
What to Do When Your Competitors Are Scraping Your Prices
An Akamai post discusses how businesses should respond when competitors scrape their prices.
Bulk AbuseIPDB reporting using command-line tools
A blogger shows how to bulk-report distributed botnet IPs scraping a self-hosted Gitea instance to AbuseIPDB using bash, awk, and jq.