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Websearches were getting worse long before AI because of SEO slop. AI has accelerated the worsening searches by making it easier to generate SEO slop.

There's some rumor (which I believe he started) that he has some sort dick implants. Dick implants have a horrifying track record of failures.

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Every accusation is a confession for the IDF.

What were these '"sting" dogs' they had a shortage of? Some sort of bomb clearing robots?

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.

while others could be executing real-time searches when users ask AI assistants for information.

WTF? Is this even considered ai anymore? Sounds more like a Just-In-Time search engine.

The frequency of these crawls is particularly telling. Schubert observed that AI crawlers "don't just crawl a page once and then move on. Oh, no, they come back every 6 hours because lol why not." This pattern suggests ongoing data collection rather than one-time training exercises, potentially indicating that companies are using these crawls to keep their models' knowledge current.

Whats telling is that these scrapers aren't just downloading the git repos and parsing those. These aren't targeted in anyways. They're probably doing something primitive like just following every link they see and getting caught in loops. If the labyrinth solution works then that confirms it.

Lol the article 403s with my VPN on.

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.

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.

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