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Do anti-bot checks feel excessive to anyone else? (lemmy.world)
submitted 3 days ago by to c/asklemmy@lemmy.world
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I’m getting really tired of “verify you’re not a bot” checks everywhere.

I understand these checks help prevent bots, but they seem to appear on so many websites now. Does anyone else find them frustrating?

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[–] 39 points 3 days ago (4 children)

My solution reduced 95ish percent of traffic. Bots were hitting my tiny site like mad.

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  • [–] 49 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago) (1 child)

    I went from thousands of requests per minute to 10, tops. Bot prevention is a must have.

    If bot checks were removed then everyone would be complaining that it's unusably slow.

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  • [+] -13 points 3 days ago

    It's easy to block most bots. It's impossible to block bots that target you specifically. I'm not blocking any bots on my websites, I like it better to optimize performance so that I can serve them all and have a lot of headroom

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