The intention is to crash bots' browsers, not users' browsers
Please point me to this 100% correct bot detection system with zero false positives.
You understand the difference between intent and reality right?
The article even warns about this side-effect.
Then maybe we need laws about crashing my server by crawling it 163,000 times per minute nonstop, ignoring robots.txt? Until then, no pity for the bots.
if your software crashes due to normal usage then you only have yourself to blame
Yes indeed. Nginx running out of RAM due to A”I” companies hammering my server is my fault.
Yes. Fix your configuration so it won't try to allocate more ram than you have. You can still be upset about them hammering your site but if your server software crashes because of it that's a misconfiguration that you should fix regardless.
By all means, tell me how I should configure NGINX so that it properly serves all real humans who wish to visit my website without crashing due to the idiot robots?
Try rereading the above instead of making up your own fantasies.
Running a bot farm?
of course not, why are you immediately jumping at accusations? if i was i'd just patch the bug locally and thank OP for pointing out how they're doing it.
it's just blatantly illegal and i wouldn't want anyone to get into legal trouble