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Doesn't run against Firefox only, it runs against whatever you configure it to. And also, from personal experience, I can tell you that majority of the AI crawlers have keyword "Mozilla" in the user agent.
Yes, this isn't cloudflare, but I'm pretty sure that's on the Todo list. If not, make an issue to the project please.
The computational requirements on the server side are a less than a fraction of the cost what the bots have to spend, literally. A non-issue. This tool is to combat the denial of service that these bots cause by accessing high cost services, such as git blame on gitlab. My phone can do 100k sha256 sums per second (with single thread), you can safely assume any server to outperform this arm chip, so you'd need so much resources to cause denial of service that you might as well overload the server with traffic instead of one sha256 calculation.
And this isn't really comparable to Tor. This is a self hostable service to sit between your web server/cdn and service that is being attacked by mass crawling.
Edit: If you don't like the projects stickers, fork it and remove them. This is open source project.
And Xe who made this project is quite talented programmer. More than likely that you have used some of Xe's services/sites/projects before as well.
Xe is insanely talented. If she is who I think she is, then I've watched her speak and her depth of knowledge across computer science topics is insane.