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y0 thanks to @seism0saurus's friend @kubikpixel i have a cool project to toss on the pile 😂:

#Anubis: "Anubis weighs the soul of your connection using a sha256 proof-of-work challenge in order to protect upstream resources from scraper bots.

Installing and using this will likely result in your website not being indexed by some search engines. This is considered a feature of Anubis, not a bug."

respect my robots.txt or pound sound. #AI #mitigation #scrapers #PoW #antiAI

Thanks to Fijxu use of Anubis videos still can be watched on inv.nadeko.net. 🫡

I feel like because of the aggressive bot scraping that intensified not long ago will going to make it impossible to continue to use feed readers and the only way to interact with websites will going to be restricted to only be possible from web browsers.
Already opening up videos in mpv from my rss subscribed invidious feeds not working, it was my preferred way to watch videos. Just to clarify I'm aware that rss still works the only thing that doesn't is opening up video links directly with mpv or with any other video player that can do the same. And not only that but I fear at some point reading full articles inside an rss reader will not work forcing me to open article links in a web browser, even if some of feeds can fetch full articles minimizing the need to do so.

I'm not trying to minimize the impact of this scrapers that have on free and open source projects and on web admins who have to deal with this onslaught of bot activity, they are the ones who got it worst.

Replied to Xe :verified:

@cadey My thoughts on #Anubis after encountering it multiple times as a user:
* mascot is nice, creative and intuitive to understand
* as a user of tor it works! cloudflare and others reject me as a bot, but anubis left me through, thank you
* onion services do not require anubis protection, though, right? Since they have their own proof of work system integrated by default …
blog.torproject.org/introducin

… equi-x function based on what Tor uses?
pony.social/@cadey/11423626384

blog.torproject.orgIntroducing Proof-of-Work Defense for Onion Services | Tor ProjectToday, we are officially introducing a proof-of-work (PoW) defense for onion services designed to prioritize verified network traffic as a deterrent against denial of service (DoS) attacks with the release of Tor 0.4.8.

Web scrapers run by LLM companies have become so aggressive that some website operators feel a need to use Anubis, a proof-of-work barrier using script in the browser. I'm told it's less bad than blocking entire countries or making your readers find all the traffic lights.
anubis.techaro.lol/

anubis.techaro.lolAnubis: self hostable scraper defense software | AnubisWeigh the soul of incoming HTTP requests using proof-of-work to stop AI crawlers
#ai#anubis#bot