Tartarus: Where bots go to die

After reading jorgesanz's post about his zip-bomb to stop AI Bots, I thought I'd create something similar.

Tartarus is a CGI script that generates a webpage. Within the page is a set of randomly generated links. Clicking on a link will send you to a new URL, which just happens to be pointing to the same script. Each load gives you new random links that lead no where but more random links.

The fun part comes when you hide the links in your page and tell the `robots.txt` to stay away. Any AI bot that scrapes your page, finds the link and then ignores your instructions will be walked down an infinite rabbit hole.

Git Repo

$ tags: ai, privacy $

$ published: 2025-08-26 16:45 $

-- CC-BY-4.0 jecxjo 2025-08-26

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