Are you sure that CF can stop AI bots?

hsbauauvhabzb 4 days ago | parent | next [-]

Do you have a better alternative?

Have you looked into open-source alternatives? I'm assuming that it's a pressing problem for you, and you have already explored alternatives.

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tick_tock_tick 4 days ago | parent [-]

I have, sadly they are basically worthless and often worse then worthless as they negatively impact the site.

	▲	ATechGuy 4 days ago \| parent [-]
		Interesting. Care to list them here so that we all can learn.

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yjftsjthsd-h 4 days ago | parent | prev [-]

https://anubis.techaro.lol/ ?

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hsbauauvhabzb 4 days ago | parent [-]

Your browser is configured to disable cookies. Anubis requires cookies for the legitimate interest of making sure you are a valid client. Please enable cookies for this domain.

Thing is, my browser isn’t configured that way. So works well, I guess.

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yjftsjthsd-h 4 days ago | parent [-]

The target was better than cloudflare, which also demands cookies but with more tracking. This is still better.

	▲	hsbauauvhabzb 4 days ago \| parent [-]
		I have not disabled cookies. Cloudflare works fine. Users being able to access a website is a pretty important metric when considering which is ‘better’.

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specialp 4 days ago | parent | prev [-]

I will tell you that we have had bot super fight mode on for a year and since then we have not had to address abusing traffic nor deal with legitimate people blocked. There is no way we could have achieved such balance. prior to that it was me blocking every Chinese AS under the sun as they shifted and bombarded us with traffic

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1gn15 4 days ago | parent [-]

> nor deal with legitimate people blocked

How are you so sure of that? Their marketing?

	▲	account42 4 days ago \| parent [-]
		Simple: If you ignore people who get blocked or just also make sure they get blocked the same way in all ways they could reach you, then you don't have to deal with them and can just ignore the issue. Fun times ahead for us.