Well, there goes my N°1 source of porn. Guess we’ll have to try to make fedinsfw.app more alive than ever then.
Sadly I think this will only affect consumers not creators so it’s unlikely to lead to a desirable new wave.
Well, there goes my N°1 source of porn. Guess we’ll have to try to make fedinsfw.app more alive than ever then.
Sadly I think this will only affect consumers not creators so it’s unlikely to lead to a desirable new wave.
Nah, scrapers, especially the AI kind, can be a heavy burden on your network. That is a valid concern and reddit is not the only victim. Even amateur sites are complaining about ai scrapers draining their bandwidth. Parties like cloudflare also acknowledge the growing problem.
Implement proof-of-work.
Cloudflare’s claims are always suspect because they’re selling an alleged solution.
Yes that is something to consider, but I trust cloudflare more (only a bit more) than the likes of other big american tech companies.
All the more reason to not involve any of those companies, and simply make anonymous visitors do a little busywork.
Can confirm, AI scrapers cause a ton of overhead on the server, we are tackling it with cloudflare challenges
Maybe if they hadn’t stripped out the infrastructure for efficient bulk dataset downloads they don’t even have to host then it wouldn’t be so much of a problem