I tried to give them a human view, but it appears that they block VPNs so I gave up.

I work on an ecomm site and it's nightmarish. We have all the cloudflare protections turned on but do try to tune out system so american AI companies will scrape us (we want chatgpt to send us customers and use our data).

Still, we have a country allow list because it's easier to admit North American traffic and the specific IPs our contractors use, then block everyone else. The amount of bot traffic flooding in globally is insane. I don't think the current day internet infrastructure is going to be able to absorb the abuse much longer.

I thought Cloudflare's anti-AI defenses were meant to dynamically catch all of this. That's a lot of work to do to keep bot traffic away.

FWIW, I tried loading it with a VPN, it showed the content, but not all the images. Turned off VPN, it fully loaded. Maybe the blog has different rules.

I feel you! Same issue here. I created my own solution https://angieguardian.org/. Fully open source and free to use under agpl license.

Wait.... AJ12Bot and Ahrefsbot are still around?! I have them blacklisted since... At least 2012 now, I think?

I usually don't really evaluate which bots might or might not be around anymore and still keep the rules for them, LOL