Cloudflare Introduces Default Blocking of A.I. Data Scrapers

Re:Cloudflare Introduces Default Blocking of A.I. Data Scrapers by xena on Wednesday July 02, 2025 @09:42PM (#44450790)

There's a non proof of work challenge: https://anubis.techaro.lol/docs/admin/configuration/challeng...

Also: Anubis does not mine cryptocurrency. Proof of work is easy to validate on the server and economically scales poorly in the wild for abusive scrapers.

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Re:Cloudflare Introduces Default Blocking of A.I. Data Scrapers by mattl on Wednesday July 02, 2025 @11:28PM (#44451371)

Thanks for the link. I’ll have a look.

I’m glad there’s no cryptocurrency involved (was never a concern) but I worry about the optics of something so closely associated.

(I appreciate your commenting on this. I know the project recently blew up in popularity. Keep up the great work)

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Re:Cloudflare Introduces Default Blocking of A.I. Data Scrapers by xena on Thursday July 03, 2025 @12:52AM (#44451725)

If you have suggestions for JS based challenges that don't become a case of "read the source code to figure out how to make playwright lie", I'm all ears for the ideas :)

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