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Hey, I love the idea behind marginalia. I love the fact that it doesn't require javascript, and in fact lets you search only for sites that work without javasc

Hey, I love the idea behind marginalia. I love the fact that it doesn't require javascript, and in fact lets you search only for sites that work without javascript! So incredibly awesome! Unfortunately Marginalia itself requires javascript. Could you please do something about this? I would use Marginalia a whole lot more, except that if I do more than two or three searches an hour, all I get is this: search.marginalia.nu Checking if the site connection is secure Enable JavaScript and cookies to continue search.marginalia.nu needs to review the security of your connection before proceeding. ... and then I just change my search engine back to Yandex in frustration. After a few days I tend to forget about Marginalia. At least until it pops up here on HN.

marginalia_nu 4y ago
You're probably unlucky enough to share an ASN with a spammer. I wish I didn't have to degrade service like this for some people, but the alternative is not serving any traffic at all because the site is constantly DOSed by bots.
- KirillPanov 4y ago
  Wait, isn't marginalia's crawler a bot? Also, what does any of this have to do with email spam? We're talking about HTTP(S) here, not SMTP, right?
  - rzzzt 4y ago
    Cloudflare and other providers add this in front of websites for DDOS protection purposes, and it is triggered based on different factors, one of which is location. I regularly get this on an Australian forum that discusses SOHO routers (and Javascript-based validation always fails so I have to solve a captcha instead).
  - akavel 4y ago
    I imagine "spammer" here is not an email spammer, but either e.g. a comments spammer (a bot trying to post links in comment forms to game google), or a generalized thought shortcut meaning something like "a bot/botnet crawling a website for nefarious purposes in a high-traffic way with abusive disregard for the site's computational and bandwidth resources".

marginalia_nu 4y ago

You're probably unlucky enough to share an ASN with a spammer. I wish I didn't have to degrade service like this for some people, but the alternative is not serving any traffic at all because the site is constantly DOSed by bots.

KirillPanov 4y ago
Wait, isn't marginalia's crawler a bot? Also, what does any of this have to do with email spam? We're talking about HTTP(S) here, not SMTP, right?
- rzzzt 4y ago
  Cloudflare and other providers add this in front of websites for DDOS protection purposes, and it is triggered based on different factors, one of which is location. I regularly get this on an Australian forum that discusses SOHO routers (and Javascript-based validation always fails so I have to solve a captcha instead).
- akavel 4y ago
  I imagine "spammer" here is not an email spammer, but either e.g. a comments spammer (a bot trying to post links in comment forms to game google), or a generalized thought shortcut meaning something like "a bot/botnet crawling a website for nefarious purposes in a high-traffic way with abusive disregard for the site's computational and bandwidth resources".