--- title: GNOME Infrastructure Now Battling Bots & AI Scrapers... description: GNOME's infrastructure team has adopted Fastly for advanced bot management at the edge to combat bots and AI scrapers that have been straining their server... canonical: https://daily.dev/posts/gnome-infrastructure-now-battling-bots-ai-scrapers-using-fastly-zb4huv9xe twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:site: @dailydotdev og:type: website og:site_name: daily.dev og:title: GNOME Infrastructure Now Battling Bots & AI Scrapers Using Fastly | daily.dev og:description: GNOME's infrastructure team has adopted Fastly for advanced bot management at the edge to combat bots and AI scrapers that have been straining their server... og:url: https://daily.dev/posts/gnome-infrastructure-now-battling-bots-ai-scrapers-using-fastly-zb4huv9xe og:image: https://api.daily.dev/og/posts/ZB4HUV9Xe.png og:image:alt: GNOME Infrastructure Now Battling Bots & AI Scrapers Using Fastly og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 630 og:locale: en --- > ## Documentation Index > Fetch the complete documentation index at: https://daily.dev/llms.txt > Use this file to discover all available pages before exploring further. # GNOME Infrastructure Now Battling Bots & AI Scrapers Using Fastly **[Phoronix](https://daily.dev/sources/phoronix)** · 1 min read · 3 upvotes · 0 comments ## Summary GNOME's infrastructure team has adopted Fastly for advanced bot management at the edge to combat bots and AI scrapers that have been straining their server resources and hosting budget. Fastly is sponsoring GNOME through its Fast Forward program, covering the costs of bot mitigation. This follows earlier measures including redirecting some GitLab traffic to GitHub repositories and using Anubis. ## Full article daily.dev links to this article rather than hosting it. 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