Comment on Tried to login to the arch wiki but was given a 3 minute crypto challenge.

• 1984@lemmy.today ⁨23⁩ ⁨hours⁩ 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?

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  • OhNoMoreLemmy@lemmy.ml ⁨23⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    I would assume the token is only good for a few page access.

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    • 1984@lemmy.today ⁨22⁩ ⁨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.

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  • Axolotl_cpp@feddit.it ⁨21⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    It will still slow them down and cobsume a ton of processing power- for data centers

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