📰 Media & Journalism Jun 18, 2026 · Dominic Ponsford

Publishers versus bots: How Trusted Reviews is fighting back against LLMs

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Publishers versus bots: How Trusted Reviews is fighting back against LLMs
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Whilst interviewing Candr CEO Chris Dicker he reels off the names of the bots scraping its flagship site – Trusted Reviews – and stealing its content.



“Oxy Labs, Gina AI, Zen Rose, Scrape AI, Zite, Scrapeless, Scrape Stack, Hyper Browser, Exa, Bright Data. I mean, there’s loads of them.”



He works with Cloudflare and Tollbit to control and catalogue the bot attacks, but still they come. The aforementioned companies appear to be third-party scrapers – effectively content traffickers –

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