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The bot situation on the internet is worse than you could imagine

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Re: The bot situation on the internet is worse than you could imagine

#27

I'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.

It's definitely more than enough to stop me as a human wanting to visit the site, so yeah.

In that case a better solution would be to take the site down altogether.

Re: The bot situation on the internet is worse than you could imagine

#30

I’ve been sitting on this page for two minutes and it’s still not sure whether I’m a bot lol. What did I do in a past life to deserve this :(

After 2 minutes at 150 kHashes on mobile, I finally see the first pixel of the progress bar filling up. Seems like it will take hours or a day to finish. Some estimate would have been nice.
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