I just can't believe this was done by so-called "AI scrapers." One time I had to take over management of a WordPress website, and I was amazed by the amount of dead traffic it received. It was getting thousands of hits per day and I genuinely believe that it was somehow hacked. The WordPress site had various hidden doors and you could pull content out that was in Chinese by adding various arguments to the site URL. It was weird. I thought this whole thing looks suspicious, so I converted the site to a static site. No more WordPress. Just pure html pages. And after awhile, the traffic slowly went down. To this day, I do not understand what was going on there, but it was weird. It seemed like the site had another parasite website embedded in it, and you could access it by adding various arguments. I have never seen anything like it. I don't like WordPress. It adds so much complexity to a site that it's just impossible to oversee everything... :/

In reply to Re^2: Moving the site behind a CDN by harangzsolt33
in thread Moving the site behind a CDN by Co-Rion

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