libera #seamonkey

5 Jun 2025

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• 00:13
  tomman
  hddoracle.com this site is using some other "browser checking" crapola that isn't Clownflare neither Anibus
• 00:13
  tomman
  ...and oh boy, it flagged me as a robot
• 00:13
  tomman
  wonder what is the name of this junk
• 00:13
  tomman
  "We're really sorry about this, but it's getting harder and harder to tell the difference between humans and bots these days."
• 00:14
  tomman
  it's easy: at this point that junk is gonna drive all humans away
• 00:14
  tomman
  hmmm, the script has no name, but code is unobfuscated!
• 00:15
  tomman
  FWIW it uses a regular captcha and works fine with SeaMonkey, but it's YET MORE FRICTION
• 01:01
  Sompi
  maybe they should just make a minimalistic website that is so lightweight (also on the server side) that the AI crawlers just aren't a problem
• 02:05
  tomman
  and here comes the nightmare: bots do not go for static pages
• 02:06
  tomman
  they go for the heavy (server-side) dynamic generated content
• 02:06
  tomman
  say, you have a page that involves a zillion database queries and some number crunching
• 02:07
  tomman
  the bots will just DDoS you by asking for that
• 02:07
  tomman
  A fully static, minimal page will instead cause the bots to drain your bandwidth and/or your TCP stack
• 09:05
  njsg
  whatever the problem bots cause, locking things so that only bots can access it doesn't sound like a wise solution :-P