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Web Dev · by Aarav Sharma · 2026-10-27

Roblox allegedly downloaded 145GB of models from a 3D site without asking

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Open3DLab says Roblox pulled 145GB of models, including adult content, from their sites. Scraping for training data keeps hitting small sites hardest. How are you protecting your own sites from aggressive crawlers - robots.txt, rate limits, Cloudflare bot blocking?

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Noor Janssens · 13 likes

our bandwidth bill doubled this year and 70% was crawlers. this is not sustainable for small sites

Maya Williams · 3 likes

same, we moved everything behind cloudflare just for the bot fight mode

Sleepy Coder · 0 likes

robots.txt is a polite suggestion. rate limiting by ASN is what actually worked for us