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If you want to do advertisement then don't require a payment, and be happy that crawlers will spread your ad to the users of AI-bots.
If you are a non-profit-site then it's great to get a micro-payment to help you maintain and run the site.
Yeah the PoW is minor for botters but annoying people. I think the only positive is if enough people see anime girls on there screens there might actually be political pressure to make laws against rampent bot crawling
> PoW is minor for botters But still enough to prevent a billion request DDoS These sites have been search engine scrapped forever. It’s not about blocking bots entirely just about this new wave of fuck you I don’t care if your host goes down quasi malicious scrappers
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> The bots will eventually be indistinguishable from humans Not until they get issued government IDs they won't! Extrapolating from current trends, some form of online ID attestation (likely based on government-issued ID[1]) will become normal in the next decade, and naturally, this will be included in the anti-bot arsenal. It will be up to the site operator to trust identities signed by the Russian government. 1. De…
Eh? With the "anonymous" models that we're pushing for right now, nothing stops you from handing over your verification token (or the control of your browser) to a robot for a fee. The token issued by the verifier just says "yep, that's an adult human", not "this is John Doe, living at 123 Main St, Somewhere, USA". If it's burned, you can get a new one. If we move to a model where the token is permanently tied to you…
This is a usually technical crowd, so I can't help but wonder if many people genuinely don't get it, or if they are just feigning a lack of understanding to be dismissive of Anubis. Sure, the people who make the AI scraper bots are going to figure out how to actually do the work. The point is that they hadn't, and this worked for quite a while. As the botmakers circumvent, new methods of proof-of-notbot will be made…
Technical people are prone to black-and-white thinking, which makes it hard to understand that making something more difficult will cause people to do it less even though it’s still possible.
So... Is Anubis actually blocking bots because they didn't bother to circumvent it?
Basically. Anubis is meant to block mindless, careless, rude bots with seemingly no technically proficient human behind the process; these bots tend to be very aggressive and make tons of requests bringing sites down. The assumption is that if you’re the operator of these bots and care enough to implement the proof of work challenge for Anubis you could also realize your bot is dumb and make it more polite and consid…
Every time I see one of these I think it's a malicious redirect to some pervert-dwelling imageboard. On that note, is kernel.org really using this for free and not the paid version without the anime? Linux Foundation really that desperate for cash after they gas up all the BMW's?
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As I've been saying for a while now - if you want to filter for only humans, ask questions only a human can easily answer; counting the number of letters in a word seems to be a good way to filter out LLMs, for example. Yes, that can be relatively easily gotten around, just like Anubis, but with the benefit that it doesn't filter out humans and has absolutely minimal system requirements (a browser that can submit HTM…
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Technical people are prone to black-and-white thinking, which makes it hard to understand that making something more difficult will cause people to do it less even though it’s still possible.
I think the argument on offer is more, this juice isn't worth the squeeze. Each user is being slowed down and annoyed for something that bots will trivially bypass if they become aware of it.
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Basically. Anubis is meant to block mindless, careless, rude bots with seemingly no technically proficient human behind the process; these bots tend to be very aggressive and make tons of requests bringing sites down. The assumption is that if you’re the operator of these bots and care enough to implement the proof of work challenge for Anubis you could also realize your bot is dumb and make it more polite and consid…
Essentially the Pow aspect is pointless then? They could require almost any arbitrary thing.