So, it’s just random bots, then?
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There are few threads about this. I have not seen a conclusive reason why this is happening. And it is happening to a lot of people. Including me.
It's probably a way of abusing google to circumvent the cloudflare protection and try doing a ddos attack.
Do you regularly have hits from google and other search engines? Because most of the projects that are in those threads do not seem like the kind of games and assets that get searched by name via google, but would rather get hits from within Itch.
Thank you for replying. This somewhat comforts me (to know that I’m not the only one), though, it’s still icky. yeah, google is the predominant source of traffic on my pages. And yeah, I totally agree that these assets should be getting traffic mostly from within Itch, hence why it’s so weird to see so much traffic via google. I’m more and more convinced it’s either some kind of exploit, or just AI agent proliferation cannibalizing the entire universe.