That’s the reason I say ‚sadly‘. It’s definitely not good. But since everything else fails, this is what currently remains.

Sadly about the only thing that reliably helps against malicious crawlers is Anubis

https://anubis.techaro.lol/

Butter and Sour Stuff. For example in cakes and cocktails

Did you catch that a Microsoft employee found the xz exploit?

I really like some Mammal Hands http://mammalhands.com/

Crickets, tumbleweeds…. Sounds about right.