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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[–] 31 points 3 days ago (4 children)

These days? Fuck no. I think it's like 57% of all web traffic these days is just bots. This is absolutely needed.

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  • [–] 15 points 3 days ago (2 children)

    Cloudflare is getting rich from all of these bots. We had turn to Cloudflare at work because bots were scraping our website and essentially DDoSing. Cloudflare worked perfectly and rate limiting bot scraping.

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  • [–] 8 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago)

    I run a reticulum NomadNet site. I setup logging, since there are no 'sessions' and I don't want to force everyone to identify, I just calcuate bot traffic based on time, order and frequency of loads, bots's scraping are likely 80% of my traffic. And this is for a service that's designed to support 200bps radio links.

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