The bot situation on the internet is worse than you could imagine
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#3Maybe my imagination is just too accurate but this didn't tell me anything I didn't expect to hear.
> Here is a massive log file for some activity in the Data Export tar pit:
A bit of a privacy faux pas, no? Some visitors may be legitimate.
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#4Maybe my imagination is just too accurate but this didn't tell me anything I didn't expect to hear. > Here is a massive log file for some activity in the Data Export tar pit: A bit of a privacy faux pas, no? Some visitors may be legitimate.
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This recently registered account has been spamming links to their app in HN comments. They tried to post a Show HN as their first post after registering. Now they’ve tried to spam links to it in two comments (one dead) in this comment section.
I don’t think the comments are bot-written, but it’s ironic that when I first clicked on this comment section 2 out of 3 comments (including the showdead one) were from someone trying to spam their app.
Even may of the newly registered human accounts are starting to feel like spam bots.
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#7The final Eternal September
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#8> Before it was enabled, it was getting several hundred-thousand requests each day. As soon as Anubis became active in there, it decreased to about 11 requests after 24 hours
I love experimental data like this. So much better than gut reaction that was spammed when anubis was just introduced
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#9I'm surprised at the effectiveness of simple PoW to stop practically all activity.
I'll implement Anubis at low difficulty for all my projects and leave a decent llms.txt referenced in my sitemap and robots.txt so LLMs can still get relevant data for my site while.keeping bad bots out. I'm getting thousands of requests from China that have really increased costs, glad it seems the fix is rather easy.
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#10Hugged to death?
https://web.archive.org/web/20260329052632/https://gladeart....