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I just started using this myself, seems pretty great so far!

Clearly doesn't stop all AI crawlers, but a significantly large chunk of them.

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[-] nrab@sh.itjust.works 10 points 1 year ago

…you do realize that brute forcing it is the work you use to prove yourself, right? That’s the whole point of PoW

[-] possiblylinux127@lemmy.zip 2 points 1 year ago

True, I should of phrased that better.

The issue is that sha256 is fairly easy to do at scale. Modern high performance hardware is well optimized for it so you could still perform attack with a bunch of GPUs. AI scrapers tend to have a lot of those.

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