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fattyfoods@feddit.nl to Open Source@lemmy.ml · 2 days ago

The Open-Source Software Saving the Internet From AI Bot Scrapers

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The Open-Source Software Saving the Internet From AI Bot Scrapers

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fattyfoods@feddit.nl to Open Source@lemmy.ml · 2 days ago
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Anubis, which block AI scrapers from scraping websites to death, has been downloaded almost 200,000 times.
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    Exactly. It’s called proof-of-work and was originally invented to reduce spam emails but was later used by Bitcoin to control its growth speed

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      It’s funby that older captchas could be viewed as proof of work algorithms now because image recognition is so good. (From using captchas.)

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        Interesting stance. I have bought many tens of thousand of captcha for legitimate reasons, and I have now completely lost faith in them

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      it wasn’t made for bitcoin originally? didn’t know that!

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        Originally called hashcash: http://hashcash.org/

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          you know it’s old when it doesn’t have ssl

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          TIL

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