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I just started using this myself, seems pretty great so far!

Clearly doesn't stop all AI crawlers, but a significantly large chunk of them.

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[–] possiblylinux127@lemmy.zip -3 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (7 children)

It is not great on many levels.

  • It only runs against the Firefox user agent. This is not great as the user agent can easy be changed. It may work now but tomorrow that could all change.

  • It doesn't measure load so even if your website has only a few people accessing it they will stick have to do the proof of work.

  • The POW algorithm is not well designed and requires a lot of compute on the server which means that it could be used as a denial of service attack vector. It also uses sha256 which isn't optimized for a proof of work type calculation and can be brute forced pretty easily with hardware.

  • I don't really care for the animé cat girl thing. This is more of a personal thing but I don't think it is appropriate.

In summary the Tor implementation is a lot better. I would love to see someone port it to the clearnet. I think this project was created by someone lacking experience which I find a bit concerning.

[–] emuspawn@orbiting.observer 4 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I use https://sx.catgirl.cloud/ so I'm already primed to have anime catgirls protecting my webs.

[–] bilb@lem.monster 4 points 1 year ago

Catgirls, jackalgirls, all embarrassing. Go full-on furry.

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