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FOSS infrastructure is under attack by AI companies (thelibre.news)

submitted 4 days ago* (last edited 4 days ago) by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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LLM scrapers are taking down FOSS projects' infrastructure, and it's getting worse.

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[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 day ago (1 children)

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.

Most bots and scrapers from what I've seen already are using (headless) full browsers, and hence are executing javascript, so I think anything that slows them down or increases their cost can reduce the traffic they bring.

Canvas fingerprinting filters out bots better than PoW

Source? I strongly disagree, and it's not hard to change your browser characteristics to get a new canvas fingerprint every time, some browsers like firefox even have built-in options for it.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 day ago

@refalo @sudo If Proof of Work gets widely adopted I foresee a future where bot running data-centers can out-compute humans to visit sites, while old devices of users in poorer countries struggle to compute the required task for hours … Or is that fear misguided?