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> This… makes no sense to me. Almost by definition, an AI vendor will have a datacenter full of compute capacity. It feels like this solution has the problem ba
by bawolff 1y ago
> This… makes no sense to me. Almost by definition, an AI vendor will have a datacenter full of compute capacity. It feels like this solution has the problem backwards, effectively only limiting access to those without resources or trying to conserve them.
Counterpoint - it seems to work. People use anubis because its the best of bad options.
If theory and reality disagree, it means either you are missing something or your theory is wrong.
- semiquaver 1y agoCounter-counter point: it only stopped them for a few weeks and now it doesn’t work: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44914773 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44914773
- Aachen 1y agoOnly Huawei so far, no? That could be easy to block on a network level for the time being Of course we knew from the beginning that this first stage of "bots don't even try to solve it, no matter the difficulty" isn't a forever solution
- jeroenhd 1y agoAliCloud also seems to send a more capable scraper army, but so far they're not using botnets ("residential proxies") to hide their bad practices.
- jeroenhd 1y agoGeoblocking China and Singapore solves that problem, it seems, at least the non-residential IPs (though I also see a lot of aggressive bots coming from residential IP space from China). I wish the old trick of sending CCP-unfriendly content to get the great firewall to kill the connection for you still worked, but in the days of TLS everywhere that doesn't seem to work anymore.