Why Sha256? Literally every processor has a crypto accelerator and will easily pass. And datacenter servers have beefy server CPUs. This is only effective against no-JS scrapers.
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It requires a bunch of browser features that non-user browsers don't have, and the proof-of-work part is like the least relevant piece in this that only gets invoked once a week or so to generate a unique cookie.
I sometimes have the feeling that as soon as some crypto-currency related features are mentioned people shut off part of their brain. Either because they hate crypto-currencies or because crypto-currency scammers have trained them to only look at some technical implementation details and fail to see the larger picture that they are being scammed.
So if you try to access a website using this technology via terminal, what happens? The connection fails?
If your browser doesn't have a Mozilla user agent (I.e. like chrome or Firefox) it will pass directly. Most AI crawlers use these user agents to pretend to be human users
What I'm thinking about is more that in Linux, it's common to access URLs directly from the terminal for various purposes, instead of using a browser.
If you're talking about something like curl, that also uses its own User agent unless asked to impersonate some other UA. If not, then maybe I can't help.
Found the FF14 fan lol
The release names are hilarious
What's the ffxiv reference here?
Anubis is from Egyptian mythology.
The names of release versions are famous FFXIV Garleans
I think the maze approach is better, this seems like it hurts valid users if the web more than a company would be.
For those not aware, nepenthes is an example for the above mentioned approach !
This looks like it can can actually fuck up some models, but the unnecessary CPU load it will generate means most websites won't use it unfortunately
I did not find any instruction on the source page on how to actually deploy this. That would be a nice touch imho.
The docker image page has it
Or even a quick link to the relevant portion of the docs at least would be cool
There are some detailed instructions on the docs site, tho I agree it'd be nice to have in the readme, too.
Sounds like the dev was not expecting this much interest for the project out of nowhere so there will def be gaps.
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