Given the nature of git, wouldn't all that HTML be highly cacheable? I get that's not free either, but it's got to be a lot less intensive than having cgit generate it every single time.

I've been noticing page views in the past several months with a much wider span of origin on my Blogger stats. Before I would get a few from several countries, but now I am getting views from tiny countries and obscure or outdated browsers and operating systems, which leads me to think scrapers could be using VPN services in various countries along with header anonymizers that mask the device that they are using.

Extensions like ModHeader, BrowserMask do this: https://github.com/apify/crawlee-python

https://github.com/mthcht/Masquerade-Spoofer

Great for AI scrapers, bad for hosters and everyone else.

How expensive would AI access be if every user paid their fair share instead of shoving it on the people doing the actual work?

Off-topic, but anyone with which he did the plots?