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Codeberg: army of AI crawlers are extremely slowing us; AI crawlers learned how to solve the Anubis challenges. (i.imgur.com)
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[–] mic_check_one_two@lemmy.dbzer0.com 10 points 16 hours ago

Exactly. Imagine needing to pay a penny for every request. Not a huge deal for someone who only makes one or two requests per year. But if you’re running a bot farm and making tens of millions of requests per day, you’ll quickly find that your operating costs have skyrocketed. That’s basically the idea behind Anubis; Make someone pay in CPU time, so the legit users don’t really notice but bots quickly eat up all of their servers’ CPU.