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But it is the whole point of the article ? Big scrapers can hardly tell if the JS that takes their runtimes is a crypto miner or an anti-scrapping system, and s
by maeln 1y ago
But it is the whole point of the article ? Big scrapers can hardly tell if the JS that takes their runtimes is a crypto miner or an anti-scrapping system, and so they will have to give up "useful" scrapping, so PoW might just work.
- rob_c 1y agoNo they point is there's really advanced PoW challenges out there to prove you're not a bot (those websites that take >3s to fingerprint you are doing this!) The idea is to abuse the abusers and if you suspect it's a bot change the PoW from a GPU/machine/die fingerprint computation to something like a few ticks of Monero or whatever the crypto of choice is this week. Sounds useless, but you forget 0.5s of that on their farm x1e4 scraping nodes and you're into something. The catch is not getting caught out by impacting the 0.1% of tor running anti ad "users" out there who will try and decompile your code when their personal chrome build fails to work. I say "users" because they will be visiting a non free site espousing their perceived right to be there, no different to a bot for someone paying the bills.