I noticed that recently Github.com has some kind of weird bot detection on public repos. I have a browser extension for switching User Agents for a specific legacy site, sometimes i forget to turn it off and Github will require me to login to view public repos.

All of this is most likely due to mass scraping by LLMs. Welcome to the total shitification of the web.

I am honestly surprised they aren't going lower at this point.

Gitlab must pay a fortune to bot traffic, most of which is malicious or garbage at best.

I understand why they're doing this, but the anticausative title kinda rubs me the wrong way.

im self hosted so im somewhat safe i guess

Worst case, this could be the start of a paywall to learn from, contribute to, or host open source projects.

Hopefully they find some kind of carve out for OSS projects while still blocking the egregious offenders.

I mean, with a completely new C-suite gutting the company, that sure isn't the only thing that's changing.

Congrats on making the world worse with AI. All this performative data scraping and uploading and no progress at all.

To anybody saying this is brought on due to AI scraping - It isn't, they are just doing this at a time that can be seen as a valid excuse. Countering AI scraping is a solved problem. This has been rolled out to bring in more subscriptions and more dollars.