Gentoo Bugzilla Shut Down Due to AI Bot Scraper Overload
happosai · hn · 2026-08-08
The official bug tracking system for Gentoo Linux, Bugzilla, was temporarily closed due to system overload caused by heavy AI bot scraper traffic. This highlights the growing burden that aggressive AI crawlers place on open-source infrastructure.
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