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Well a good step is to never give your clients full admin permissions in WP so that they can install plugins or mess with theme files.

Well we have hosted 10 small business WP sites per $10 DigitalOcean droplet for the last decade. There are not additional plugin costs on any of them. And there has been no real ma…

> let them SFTP some markdown files Have you ever worked with any SMBs before? This is at least 5 technical levels above their head. Would make as much sense as telling them, "just…

Exactly, since they can bill those as conversions (like phone calls, bookings, reservations, etc) rather than simply website visits

that's why systems architects are supposed to get paid well, because there are a lot of different stakeholders to consider

Not really because most of the links in current AI overviews for many queries keep you in the Google ecosystem, such as links to Google Business profiles on Google Maps. And Google…

> Most people here have commented that they prefer AI responses to raw search results Strangely enough, I've seen the exact opposite response on here. Especially since the AI overv…

A systems architecture perspective should be very very inclusive of the business perspective.

Have used supabase a bunch over the last few years, but between this and open auth issues that haven't been fix for over a year [0], I'm starting to get a little wary on trusting t…

> We never distinguished automations from people though, that makes no sense on the internet. LOL I see you've never sold anything on the internet, ran a website that is supposed t…

Google has clearly decided to keep users on their platform longer, hoping that this will lead to more ad clicks. There is a clear reason why AI overviews very seldomly link to outs…

Probably because that's one of the only things you can say to Google these days that will escalate it from an low level support agent on the other side of the world.

Vastly varies on what type of website you have, how many pages you have, and how often they are updated. We routinely see 1000's of requests per minute coming from AI bots and the …

...that's literally the entire point of this article. People don't want their websites being de-listed from the monopoly that controls organic traffic. At the same time they would …

Well besides them being abusive, the other issue is that AI overviews and answer boxes cannibalize traffic to websites, leading to less conversions for the original content produce…

What has been democratic about how the internet has evolved over the last 2 decades? Because as far as I can see, the internet has undergone a massive centralization into the hands…

Both are an issue. People don't want AI overviews cannibalizing their website traffic. People also don't want AI bots spamming their website with outrageous numbers of requests eve…

There is nothing stopping other CDN/DNS providers from implementing similar services and tools to what Cloudflare offers. Part of the reason CF has become so popular is because so …

I find it wild that you focus on CF being a monopoly here when they are providing tools that help publishers not have all of their content stolen and repurposed. AI companies have …

There are about a dozen Google crawlers that can hit your website for different reasons: https://developers.google.com/search/docs/crawling-indexing/... Google-Extended is what is …

I come to the exact opposite conclusion. A few large companies scraping and repurposing original content from publishers kills original content on the internet because it takes out…

Having perplexity or other AI bots go haywire and sending 10s of thousands of requests per minute to your website (despite you having a robots.txt blocking them) is a giant pain in…

> Again it sounds like the people who are upset by this really want to publish images rather than web pages. More like people don't want to lose money because a 3rd party stole all…

On multiple client sites that have > 1 million unique real visitors per month, we are seeing some days where ~25-30% of requests is from AI crawlers. Thankfully we block almost all…

Google has made it very difficult to completely block their AI crawling by also using the standard googlebot search crawlers to feed data into their AI overviews and other AI featu…