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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      8 hours ago

      I’m even more annoyed by anubis. Letting me wait in the browser for an enternity for some check that a bot with a native implementation can solve in milliseconds.

      Proof of work my ass.

      • Axolotl.cpp@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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        3 hours ago

        Tbh I never had to wait much with anubis, neither with my phone or computer; websites that make me wait a lot (like the arch wiki IIRC) then give ya access without having to do the check again;
        Also, Anubis unlike Cloudflare does not block me just cuz i have NoScript installed

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        5 hours ago

        It sure can, instead of doing 50 requests. A slowdown is all that’s needed to make random scraping uneconomical.