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This is going to drive websites to put even more Cloudflare captcha-walls before you can even see the content. Web will become less accessible. I have a domain
by leonidasv 2y ago
This is going to drive websites to put even more Cloudflare captcha-walls before you can even see the content. Web will become less accessible.
I have a domain parked with just a blank page that's getting 172,000 requests per month. Since it's on a free-tier static hosting, that costs me nothing. However, if that trend continues, I don't know how long we will have those free static hosting options available for everyone.
- deadbabe 2y agoSend a zip bomb
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- jonatron 2y agoIt didn't seem to matter what response I sent to PerplexityBot, the requests kept coming. I guess it's not surprising that a badly written bot isn't monitored either.
- reginald78 2y agoCan you use hashcash or some proof of work system somehow? I don't know anything about this space.
- jonatron 2y agoThey were only requesting the HTML, not using a headless browser.
- Dwedit 2y agoThere was the tarpit that sends out markov-chain-generated random words, loading very slowly . If the client has a limited number of concurrent requests, that could theoretically choke the client.
- JohnFen 2y ago> a badly written bot I think that it's fair to say that these bots aren't badly written. Their behavior is entirely intentional.