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Post by jchw »

o11c wrote: post #242
jchw wrote: post #226

> This… makes no sense to me. Almost by definition, an AI vendor will have a datacenter full of compute capacity. It feels like this solution has the problem backwards, effectively only limiting access to those without resources or trying to conserve them. A lot of these bots consume a shit load of resources specifically because they don't handle cookies, which causes some software (in my experience, notably phpBB) t…

> A lot of these bots consume a shit load of resources specifically because they don't handle cookies, which causes some software (in my experience, notably phpBB) to consume a lot of resources. (Why phpBB here? Because it always creates a new session when you visit with no cookies. And sessions have to be stored in the database. Surprise!) Forcing the bots to store cookies to be able to reasonably access a service a…

phpBB supports browsers that don't support or accept cookies: if you don't have a cookie, the URL for all links and forms will have the session ID in it. Which would be great, but it seems like these bots are not picking those up either for whatever reason.

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Post by snerbles »

CursedSilicon wrote: post #182
nemomarx wrote: post #160

Earlier quoted context omitted.

how well is modern poisoning holding up?

I'll tell you in a second. First I wanna try adding gasoline to my spaghetti as suggested by Google's search

A balanced diet of hydrocarbons in your carbohydrates!

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Post by username135 »

CursedSilicon wrote: post #177
Arnavion wrote: post #148

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The string I use in my extension is "anubis is crap". I took it from a different FF extension that had been posted in a /g/ thread about Anubis, which is where I got the idea from in the first place. I don't use other people's extensions if I can help it (because of the obvious risk), but I figured I'd use the same string in my own extension so as to be combined with users of that extension for the sake of user-agent…

It's a bit telling that you "don't use extensions if you can help it" but trust advice from a 4chan board

4chan, the worlds greatest hacker

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Post by marvinborner »

jimmaswell wrote: post #12

What exactly is so bad about AI crawlers compared to Google or Bing? Is there more volume or is it just "I don't like AI"?

As a reference on the volume aspect: I have a tiny server where I host some of my git repos. After the fans of my server spun increasingly faster/louder every week, I decided to log the requests [1]. In a single week, ClaudeBot made 2.25M (!) requests (7.55GiB), whereas GoogleBot made only 24 requests (8.37MiB). After installing Anubis the traffic went down to before the AI hype started.

[1] https://types.pl/@marvin/114394404090478296

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Post by slowmovintarget »

eurleif wrote: post #47
slowmovintarget wrote: post #42

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I thought only capital crimes (murder, for example) held the standard of beyond a reasonable doubt. Lesser crimes require the standard of either a "Preponderance of Evidence" or "Clear and Convincing Evidence" as burden of proof. Still, even by those lesser standards, it's hard to build a case.

No, all criminal convictions require proof beyond a reasonable doubt: https://constitution.congress.gov/browse/essay/amdt14-S1-5-5... >Absent a guilty plea, the Due Process Clause requires proof beyond a reasonable doubt before a person may be convicted of a crime.

Thank you.

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Post by slowmovintarget »

Majromax wrote: post #53
slowmovintarget wrote: post #42

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I thought only capital crimes (murder, for example) held the standard of beyond a reasonable doubt. Lesser crimes require the standard of either a "Preponderance of Evidence" or "Clear and Convincing Evidence" as burden of proof. Still, even by those lesser standards, it's hard to build a case.

It's civil cases that have the lower standard of proof. Civil cases arise when one party sues another, typically seeking money, and they are claims in equity, where the defendant is alleged to have harmed the plaintiff in some way. Criminal cases require proof beyond a reasonable doubt. Most things that can result in jail time are criminal cases. Criminal cases are almost always brought by the government, and crimina…

Thank you.

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Post by Symbiote »

ranger_danger wrote: post #66
Macha wrote: post #48

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Source: Cloudflare https://blog.cloudflare.com/perplexity-is-using-stealth-unde... Perplexity's defense is that they're not doing it for training/KB building crawls but for answering dynamic queries calls and this is apparently better.

I do not see the words "residential" or "proxy" anywhere in that article... or any other text that might imply they are using those things. And personally... I don't trust crimeflare at all. I think they and their MITM-as-a-service has done even more/lasting damage to the global Internet and user privacy in general than all AI/LLMs combined. However, if this information is accurate... perhaps site owners should allow…

I had 500,000 residential IPs make 1-4 requests each in the past couple of days.

These had the same user agent (latest Safari), but previously the agent has been varied.

Blocking this shit is much more complicated than any blocking necessary before 2024.

The data is available for free download in bulk (it's a university) and this is advertised in several places, including the 429 response, the HTML source and the API documentation, but the AI people ignore this.

Re: Why are anime catgirls blocking my access to the Linux kernel?

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Post by extraduder_ire »

With the asymmetry of doing the PoW in javascript versus compiled c code, I wonder if this type of rate limiting is ever going to be directly implemented into regular web browsers. (I assume there's already plugins for curl/wget)

Other than Safari, mainstream browsers seem to have given up on considering browsing without javascript enabled a valid usecase. So it would purely be a performance improvement thing.

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