Ask Lemmy

I've just considered it a casualty of the privacy wars.

I don't know if they're deployed as a "weapon of annoyance" or anything, but I do notice that when I'm using a) a degoogled browser, b) an ad-blocking dns, c) mask my location, and/or d) block my IP. Suddenly (almost) every website makes me wait by throwing that at me.

I think it's lowkey trying to annoy me to the point where I give up on having those privacy measures, but they underestimate my hatred of corporate fuckery.

Unless you want this place to wind up like youtube and reddit with zionist AI bots skewing the entire website in favor of israel, no.

They should just use Anubis. At least we then see cute anime characters while the bot check runs.

yes, including useless captchas.. even more so as i know they're trivially bypassed/workarounded on sophisticated bots

i understand it does block stupid crawlers but still.

lemmy.zip only has these if you're not logged in

Just the "click and hold" ones that take forever and only work 20% of the time. I need a damn good reason to go there, else I say "fuck it" and move on.

No, but only because I've helped run a website recently and you underestimate just how much wasted traffic is from scrapper bots. On our limited bandwidth, it was practically a DDOS attack all the time.

My biggest problem with this kinda stuff is with Anubis and like one site using cloudflare.

With my current setup, like what feels like 99% of alternative r€ddit alternate frontend hosted sites don't let me in. So I am stuck using my redirect extension to keep trying to connect to a different instance from the list and it usually takes a while.

And then, as someone who like emulation, I gotta give a huge screw you to how ghe emulation gametech wiki thing completely blocks me from connecting to their site with a VPN active. Like, I just wanna see what's new in the emulator realm in terms of whether or not they still suggest certain emulators and their cloudflare settings basically shit on me for wanting to provately browse their website. Fuck me for not wanting my ISP looking at everything I do!

Bots are genuinely a problem.

I'm going to go ballistic if I have to pick out all the pictures of fucking crosswalks one more time.

Says guy unaware that lemmy posts and comments are majoritarily published by bots.

I'm not a fan of going to hardware store's website and having to verify I'm not a bot just to see if they have an item I'm looking for

As others have said, they are absolutely necessary in this day and age.

But also the bots are not deliberately targetting lemmy, it's just that lemmy has unlimited pages to scrape and so the traffic piles up. If your issue is specifically with Lemmy then using an app should help. Many instances also give logged in users a free pass.

Nah, fuck them bots.

You may not understand just how prevalent bot traffic is. I self-host a small personal website that real people only actually visit once in a blue moon, but I get constant attempts to access the Wordpress admin console (my website isn’t made with Wordpress lol)

Seems like a complaint a bot would have.

Man, if the checks feel excessive you'd be astounded to know how the bot frequency feels 😂

I’ve never seen this message before

Cloudflare tracks TF outta you. Not antibot checkoff, but Cloudflare def