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FOSS infrastructure is under attack by AI companies
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Admins will always turn down the bot management when it starts blocking end users. At that point you cough up the money for the extra bandwidth and investigate different solutions.
@sudo yeah, the bot-problem is hard, especially for voluntary that help others.
https://nadeko.net/announcements/invidious-and-the-bot-problem/
* they use a proof of work system called #Anubis to fix their #bot problem. I hope it works. #proofofwork
The proof of work right now needs about 1 second on my phone, so I am happy with that.
Perhaps the biggest problem of bots is the number of requests they start, which is impossible to replicate by a normal human clicking on buttons.
I've been criticizing Anubis and Proof of Work solutions in general. Its my speculation that they mostly work just by requiring you to execute javascript not by being an actual burden on the bots CPU.