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Regular users aren't trying to load billions of pages.
by losvedir 2y ago
Regular users aren't trying to load billions of pages.
- charcircuit 2y agoWhat's your point?
- mariusor 2y agoWhen the compute power to access a page has just doubled, when you view 10 pages it's not a problem, but when you view 1 billion of them, it is.
- charcircuit 2y agoThe compute power is not going to be a problem even at a billion pages. Lets say that a challenge targeted towards a cheap phone can be solved by a workstation CPU at 1000 challenges per second. And let's say each challenge lets you visit 100 pages. So for a billion pages you need only a few hours of 1 machine's compute. If you try and make the amount of compute to be a problem, then it will become a problem to regular users of the site and it will drive away regular people.
- mariusor 2y agoYou seem to be very confident, but from what I've seen online most people that employed this type of countermeasures did really have a drop in requests. I can't find the graphs I've seen about this at the moment, but I'll update if I do.
- charcircuit 2y agoIt only protects against people who aren't specifically targeting you. I am confident because I've had people target a site of mine.
- mariusor 2y agoThen I think you're talking about a different problem than the Konstantin and wikipedia, and sourcehut and codeberg and everyone else is complaining about lately, which is the subject under discussion.
- charcircuit 2y agoIt will buy time until the next generation of crawlers is created.