Why Publications Are Now Visible Only to Logged-In Users

TL;DR: Due to a surge in AI bot scraping (tens of millions of requests daily 🤖📈), the publications list on genebe.net 🔬 is now available only to logged-in users with confirmed emails 🔒✅. This helps protect privacy and keep the service fair for genuine researchers 🙏⚖️.

On genebe.net 🔬, the publications list (titles and abstracts of papers containing a given variant of interest) was previously publicly accessible.

However, over the past months, automated scraping — especially by AI bots 🤖 — has exploded, generating tens of millions of requests daily 📈. This overwhelming activity makes it harder to ensure a stable and fair service for genuine researchers and users.

Because I take your privacy seriously 🔒, I’ve chosen not to route your traffic through third-party filtering services like Cloudflare or other external providers. Instead, to make this section of the site less attractive to bots and to protect our resources, I’ve moved the publications list behind a login wall 🧱.

From now on, the publications list is available only to registered users with confirmed email addresses ✅.

Thank you for your understanding 🙏 — this change helps us maintain “fair use” without “abuse” ⚖️ and keep genebe.net a reliable resource for everyone.