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I’m getting really tired of “verify you’re not a bot” checks everywhere.
I understand these checks help prevent bots, but they seem to appear on so many websites now. Does anyone else find them frustrating?
Seems like a big switch in the last 3-6 months? Even google is making me do stupid captcha when I occasionally use it.
There are effective alternatives that dont require a man in the middle.
Yes, it is getting annoying. I do not have any anti-automation measurements on my services (besides robots.txt, if that counts), I just let everyone pass, no matter if human, script or AI. The only thing that annoys me sometimes is when searching through logs because of the frequeny of requests, but as long as it doesn't get to a level where it impacts performance I really don't care that much about it.
Well I’m not a bot so I don’t mind, now aita for spilling wine on someone who wore white to my wedding?
You know how Cyberpunk 77 has a basically literal 'cyberhell', beyond the BlackWall?
This is the irl BlackWall.
You do not want IRL cyberhell.
Anubis is the duct taped patchwork of preventions keeping the endless thousands of bots per minute from hitting our servers.
The internet is a store for humans and a community for bots. It's a trash dump
yes. but that's also by design.
next they're going to require ID for internet access all under the guise of "improving user experience"
I do almost anything for internet access, but...
I get a lot more of this when connected via vpn.
I'm a dumbass and don't understand why scrapers can't defeat these checks, if my browser can do it without any interaction from me.
They can, but it forces their computer to waste time solving math problems. If you're familiar with Proof-of-Work from blockchain, it's basically that.
The idea, essentially, is that it makes it painful for bots doing internet-wide scraping but is only kinda annoying for actual humans.
But I am a bot, why did I see this?
Bots eventually hit every tiny vps I rent , makes the performance seem a lot worse than it is
Recently my Agent came back from a research task stating it had to complete various captchas but succeeded, then it reported the results.
They’re not just for bot protection. They are mostly for caching to reduce bandwidth expenses.
Only when I'm on a vpn
Lemmy has bot checks?
Lemmy.world does. I get it anytime I'm on my mobile web browser. It's not set to a high level so the apps are able to bypass the checks.
