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The Open-Source Software Saving the Internet From AI Bot Scrapers (www.404media.co)

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[-] isolatedscotch@discuss.tchncs.de 21 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago)

adding to this, some sites set the difficulty way higher then others, nerdvpn's invidious and redlib instances take about 5 seconds and some ~20k hashes, while privacyredirect's inatances are almost instant with less then 50 hashes each time

[-] RepleteLocum@lemmy.blahaj.zone 8 points 2 weeks ago

So they make the internet worse for poor people? I could get through 20k in a second, but someone with just an old laptop would take a few minutes, no?

[-] isolatedscotch@discuss.tchncs.de 12 points 2 weeks ago

So they make the internet worse for poor people? I could get through 20k in a second, but someone with just an old laptop would take a few minutes, no?

i mean, kinda? you are absolutely right that someone with an old pc might need to wait a few extra seconds, but the speed is ultimately throttled by the browser