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?

  • Barbarian@sh.itjust.works
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    6 days ago

    Even if it doesn’t prevent scraping entirely, filtering out the “fast, weak” bots help mitigate server load. Sufficiently many bots hitting your site is indistinguishable from a DDOS attack.