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The Bots Are Back
8 July 2025
We were alarmed this morning to see our Web site usage report show a 21.11-GB daily tally. Our limit is 150-GB a month, so we investigated. And, sure enough, the bots are back.
We look through the logs for downloads of collections of old files. We know something is fishy when we see an IP downloading everything in directories before 2025. You know, like 2013, 2014, etc.
We blocked several IPs today to fight back. Email us at if you can't access the site with the name of your Internet Service Provider so we can unblock them.
We've been saddened to see Ric Ford step back from publishing on Macintouch because of this nonsense. Providing free access to individuals interested in the subject is not the same as providing access to the entire site for commercial use.
You'd think that would be obvious.
The bots aren't smart enough to download once and just check for updates, surprisingly. They continually download the entire site. So we block them entirely when we're able to identify them.
We're just trying to make sure you can continue to read Photo Corners. Which seems, as Ric Ford has found at Macintouch, too much to ask.