corpus.blog
56,966 blogs · 4,417,066 posts Claim your blog
Record · corpus.blog/posts/01a087e5-dbac-718c-b702-8ff3161e4ce8

What just happened to TheNumbers.com should worry us all

StephenFollows.com - Using data to explain the film industry | Substack · published 22 July 2026

A record is what was published and who pointed at it. The text of the post is not held here: read it at the source, or at its Wayback capture.

Read the post at stephenfollows.com Wayback capture
7blogs citing
First cited
26 Jul 2026
Most recent
7 Aug 2026
Rank this month
not ranked
Links from this post
32
Words captured
2,881

Cited by

Blog
In the post
Date
wulfpaper
Monthly recap (July 2026) Read at the source ↗
7 Aug 2026
drake.bearblog.dev
Monthly recap (July 2026) Read at the source ↗
7 Aug 2026
divergentrays.com
Weekly Wrap Up 121 Read at the source ↗
3 Aug 2026
I am BARRY HESS
It’s been a hot minute... Read at the source ↗
31 Jul 2026
jezuk.co.uk
July Linkfarm Read at the source ↗
30 Jul 2026
The Overspill: when there's more that I want to say
Start Up No.2716: Apple’s AI advantage, AI lobbying explodes, the dangers of underscored usernames, bad AI forecasts, and more Read at the source ↗
28 Jul 2026
The Overspill: when there's more that I want to say
Start Up No.2715: what shall we do with superintelligence?, smartphones in North Korea, Nvidia corners RAM supply, and more Read at the source ↗
27 Jul 2026
· roytang.net
Weeknotes 2026-07-26 Read at the source ↗
26 Jul 2026

Links from this post

Link
Host
https://www.the-numbers.com/
the-numbers.com
https://www.guinnessworldrecords.com/records/partners/organisations/the-numbers
guinnessworldrecords.com
https://polymarket.com/predictions/box-office
polymarket.com
https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!Jv4W!,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F730e3c9b-f856-4142-ad5a-b0aa0ef37425_1186x668.jpeg
substackcdn.com
https://www.reddit.com/r/boxoffice/comments/1rqwblr/thenumberscom_has_been_down_for_a_week/
reddit.com
https://www.reddit.com/r/boxoffice/comments/1u0b48n/so_thenumbers_clearly_did_a_rug_pull_on_their/
reddit.com
https://web.archive.org/web/20171022062126/http://www.the-numbers.com/news/225810830-Numbers-Turns-20-The
web.archive.org
https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!_i4X!,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F6208b330-c81f-4629-be43-3eb0c921eef3_3014x1440.png
substackcdn.com
https://www.imperva.com/blog/bad-bot-report-2026-bots-agentic-age/
imperva.com
https://www.forbes.com/sites/josipamajic/2026/06/04/bots-now-outnumber-humans-online-and-the-internet-was-never-built-for-this/
forbes.com
https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!Bfi4!,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fba3006fe-2a07-4c07-a709-f146b600d5ec_1513x837.png
substackcdn.com
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Polymarket
en.wikipedia.org
https://polymarket.com/event/disclosure-day-opening-weekend-box-office
polymarket.com
https://www.anthropic.com/news/disrupting-AI-espionage
anthropic.com
https://www.anthropic.com/news/detecting-countering-misuse-aug-2025
anthropic.com
https://xbow.com/blog/top-1-how-xbow-did-it
xbow.com
https://www.the-numbers.com/business-report/
the-numbers.com
https://www.cloudflare.com/
cloudflare.com
https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!_nAB!,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F74ff54cc-52e4-44b1-98a8-a40ac7a8059e_1551x840.png
substackcdn.com
Aggressive AI crawlers leads to surprise bandwidth bills Read at the source ↗
about.readthedocs.com
https://www.404media.co/anthropic-ai-scraper-hits-ifixits-website-a-million-times-in-a-day/
404media.co
https://techcrunch.com/2025/01/10/how-openais-bot-crushed-this-seven-person-companys-web-site-like-a-ddos-attack/
techcrunch.com
Please stop externalizing your costs directly into my face Read at the source ↗
drewdevault.com
https://lwn.net/Articles/1008897/
lwn.net
https://thelibre.news/foss-infrastructure-is-under-attack-by-ai-companies/
thelibre.news
Mitigating Aggressive Crawler Traffic in the Age of Generative AI: A Collaborative Approach from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill Libraries Read at the source ↗
journal.code4lib.org
https://diff.wikimedia.org/2025/04/01/how-crawlers-impact-the-operations-of-the-wikimedia-projects/
diff.wikimedia.org
https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!I3wY!,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fe84eb0fa-9940-4372-b065-9f3417014afc_1513x861.png
substackcdn.com
https://techcrunch.com/2025/10/18/wikipedia-says-traffic-is-falling-due-to-ai-search-summaries-and-social-video/
techcrunch.com
https://blog.cloudflare.com/introducing-pay-per-crawl/
blog.cloudflare.com
https://techcrunch.com/2026/07/01/cloudflares-new-policy-pushes-ai-companies-to-pay-for-publishers-content/
techcrunch.com
https://www.theregister.com/cyber-crime/2026/07/13/german-firm-files-for-insolvency-blames-cybercrims-who-shut-down-production-for-6-weeks/5270524
theregister.com