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Can we put shitjustworks behind a captcha? (sh.itjust.works)

submitted 1 week ago by Quacksalber@sh.itjust.works to c/main@sh.itjust.works

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For me at least, for months now, this instance is unavailable for multiple hours a day. Given the recent posts about the lemmy eco system being on a slight downwards trend, I don't think this additional load is caused by more users using this instance. Rather, I think that AI scrapers are using this instance to scrape lemmy. If I am correct, though only someone with access to the logs can check, I'd like to kindly ask for some sort of protection from AI scrapers. Both because I like being able to actually browse the instance and because I hate AI companies.

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[–] partial_accumen@lemmy.world 14 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Some Lemmy instances use Cloudflare for protection. I know that sopuli.xyz uses Anubis instead. Both these approaches would offer scraper protection without a captcha which would certainly be a high friction event for human users. Does shitjustworks use something like this?

[–] artwork@lemmy.world 2 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

Related: Army of AI crawlers (...are extremely slowing us; AI crawlers learned how to solve the Anubis challenges... - Codeberg...)