As bots hammer websites, IP-level restrictions are closing the open internet
mobileraj · x · 2026-09-25
The author observes that publisher-level walled gardens are only the beginning: as bots and bad actors hammer sites, more restrictions are appearing at the IP/network level too. Legitimate traffic gets caught in the crossfire, and the open internet is literally becoming less open — a structural side effect of the AI crawler era.
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