It’s not about stopping the bots, it’s about slowing them down
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1984@lemmy.today 1 day ago
I wonder if this even is effective. If a bot can solve anubis challenges, why can’t it solve all difficulties?
TechieDamien@lemmy.ml 1 day ago
1984@lemmy.today 1 day ago
But once the challange is completed, they have the token and can scrape until it’s expired right? So if it’s just taking them a bit more time to get the auth token, what is it solving?
OhNoMoreLemmy@lemmy.ml 1 day ago
I would assume the token is only good for a few page access.
1984@lemmy.today 23 hours ago
No it actually lasts for a long time. We have it on my Lemmy instance for old.lemmy.today and it’s generated once and lasts for many days, probably a week. I guess it’s configurable but if you generate it too often, your visitors will also be annoyed.
Axolotl_cpp@feddit.it 22 hours ago
It will still slow them down and cobsume a ton of processing power- for data centers
scrubbles@poptalk.scrubbles.tech 20 hours ago
I’m a server asking with it.
I went from thousands of requests per minute down to 5. Five. Database was pegged constantly at 100% serving requests down to ~50% now. Huge difference.
balsoft@lemmy.ml 23 hours ago
The point is to make scraping too expensive to be profitable. Even the easy level 4 anubis challenge multiplied by a few million pages becomes very expensive.