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.
Most bots and scrapers from what I’ve seen already are using (headless) full browsers
That's not going to be the majority of your bot traffic by a long shot because it doesn't scale like using basic HTTP requests.
This is from personal experience. With PoW you just need any puppetted browser, maybe less. With Canvas finerprinting you need a heavily customized scraping browser, either one you made yourself or one you're paying for. If that's the case the cost of PoW is neglible. If you still want actual stats, I'd have to ask where you're getting any stats on PoW working.
The assumption is correct. PoW has been proven to significantly reduce bot traffic.
What you're doing is filtering out bots that can't be bothered to execute JavaScript. You don't need to do a computational heavy PoW task to do that.
meanwhile the mere existence of residential proxies has exploded the availability of easy bot campaigns.
Correct, and thats why they are the number one expense for any scraping company. Any scraper that can't be bothered to spin up a headless browser isn't going to cough up the dough for residential proxies.
Demonstrably false… people already do this with abysmal results. Need to visit a clownflare site? Endless captcha loops. No thanks
That's not what "demonstrably false" even means. Canvas fingerprinting filters out bots better than PoW. What you're complaining about too strict settings and some users being denied. Make your Anubis settings too high you'll have users waiting long times while their batteries drain.
Proof of Work is a terrible solution because it assumes computational costs are significant expense for scrapers compared to proxy costs. It'll never come close to costing the same as residential proxies and meanwhile every smartphone user will be complaining about your website draining their battery.
You can do something like only challenge data data center IPs but you'll have to do better than Proof-of-Work. Canvas fingerprinting would work.
Whats confusing the hell out of me is: why are they bothering to scrape the git blame page? Just download the entire git repo and feed that into your LLM!
9/10 the best solution is to block nonresidential IPs. Residential proxies exist but they're far more expensive than cloud proxies and providers will ask questions. Residential proxies are sketch AF and basically guarded like munitions. Some rookie LLM maker isn't going to figure that out.
Anubis also sounds trivial to beat. If its just crunching numbers and not attempting to fingerprint the browser then its just a case of feeding the page into playwright and moving on.
+3,000 student athletes in The A-Team. And yes it went horribly wrong. Some students started unionizing immediately.
"Then you go out in the field, and the first ray of sun comes over the horizon. The first ray. Everyone looked at each other, and said, 'What did we do?' The thermometer went up like in a Bugs Bunny cartoon. By 9 a.m., it was 110 degrees."
Garden gloves that the farmers gave the students to help them harvest lasted only four hours, because the cantaloupe's fine hairs made grabbing them feel like "picking up sandpaper."
The farmers sheltered them in "any kind of defunct housing," according to Carter — old Army barracks, rooms made from discarded wood, and even buildings used to intern Japanese-Americans during World War II.
7/10 Photoshop job. There aren't distortion lines but it is noticeably blurrier where its been edited.
I don't object to photoshopping billionaires. Im only asking for a sharper job.
Jayapal said one plan is to propose a raft of executive orders President Biden could issue to "protect existing structures," such as shielding career civil servants and Justice Department officials.
Yes! Good!
Some Democrats are also sensitive to the perception that they are adopting the tactics of Republican state legislators who used their supermajorities to kneecap incoming Democratic governors.
Fucking gauge my eyeballs out. You can't call them fascists and then object to playing dirty against them.
"We're trying to show how the United States is supposed to conduct itself every four years when a new person takes over the reins of government," said Cleaver.
McConnell denied Obama a Supreme court appointment! The precedent is already set! Your norms are already broken!
If democrats want to win they must purge their own ranks of members like Cleaver and rebuild with more Jayapals or else they will keep ceding grounds to fascists.
The analysis revealed that the Debian Linux configuration was not included in their test matrix.
You might as well say you don't support Linux.
"Crowdstrike's model seems to be 'we push software to your machines any time we want, whether or not it's urgent, without testing it'," lamented the team member.
I wonder how this shit works on NixOS.
Patrol Cop once told me a joke about how he ran over a black kids bike. When got back to the station he saw the kid at the desk trying to report the incident. He'd carried his busted up bike the entire way. The cop behind the desk called out "Hey Rob, did you run over this kid's bike?". "Nope". Case closed. No report filed.
Edit: PS: This was one of the "good ones". He voted Clinton in 2016 because the rival faction in the Union was showing up to Trump rallies in class A's. Took him the entire Trump admin but he works retail now.
We let almost all manufacturing jobs go overseas just to cut labor costs and now we're suffering the consequences and our government completely incapable of doing what's necessary to bring that manufacturing capability back to the US. At this point basic Keynesians economic policy is tantamount to heresy for anyone but the far left. Its like we've adopted the economic policies we forced on third world nations, and found ourselves with a third world economy.
Being able to produce cheap drones as good as DJIs is far more important for national security than whatever espionage risk they pose. Cheap, easy to use, drones like the dji phantom are omnipresent in current wars. Banning them prevents us from learning via competition or basic reverse engineering.
Wanting to not get fingerprinted is totally fair. I'm just stating what will and won't work at scale. But please understand, you're ability to view the internet anonymously is wholly equivalent to a bots.