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The Open-Source Software Saving the Internet From AI Bot Scrapers
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this post was submitted on 07 Jul 2025
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adding to this, some sites set the difficulty way higher then others, nerdvpn's invidious and redlib instances take about 5 seconds and some ~20k hashes, while privacyredirect's inatances are almost instant with less then 50 hashes each time
So they make the internet worse for poor people? I could get through 20k in a second, but someone with just an old laptop would take a few minutes, no?
Just wait till they hit my homepage with a 200mb react frontend, 9 seperate tracking / analytics scripts and generic shopify scripts on it :P
i mean, kinda? you are absolutely right that someone with an old pc might need to wait a few extra seconds, but the speed is ultimately throttled by the browser
Well, it's the scrapers that are causing the problem.
Isn't that just the way things work in general though? If you have a worse computer, everything is going to be slower, broadly speaking.