Post #3474265
2026-06-28 10:07 UTC
@drgeo@mamot.fr @Dragon@toast.dragon2611.net @doctormo@floss.social
Some malicious actors (and I am honestly freaking out why they have not been exposed yet) are accessings websites from millions of different machines with no identification or recognisable patterns. They access every URL, many times, regardless of content or anything, and overload people's servers. Because they come from without any throttles, from so many machines and without any shared bits of information, you can only block them with complicated extra processes.
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@Dragon@toast.dragon2611.net 2026-06-28 10:14
@cartocalypse@norden.social @drgeo@mamot.fr @doctormo@floss.social Right, I believe how the likes of Anubis work is they basically make the client calculate a proof of work problem, for a normal user that means starting at page for some seconds, maybe heating up their device slightly if it's a mobile/thin and light but it's usually fairly painless. For a bot however it makes it a lot more expensive to crawl the site.