AI crawlers from Meta and Alibaba almost destroyed a volunteer-run LGBT history archive

The site’s founder says bots linked to major tech companies drove up his hosting costs and forced him to spend nights learning how to keep them out.

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BY Chris Stokel-Walker

Jonathan Harborne founded his LGBT history encyclopedia 15 years ago to document some of the struggles his peers had encountered in their lives. He worried that even as changing social values made life better for LGBTQ people, the struggles past generations had endured for recognition and respect could be wiped from memory, along with the pain caused by the........

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