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?
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?
These days? Fuck no. I think it’s like 57% of all web traffic these days is just bots. This is absolutely needed.
Cloudflare is getting rich from all of these bots. We had turn to Cloudflare at work because bots were scraping our website and essentially DDoSing. Cloudflare worked perfectly and rate limiting bot scraping.
I wouldn’t be surprised if they make some of the bots they stop. It’d be like the people who bred snakes to get money for killing them in India.
You can add “Strengthened Cloudflare as the Internet’s single point of failure” to the long, growing list of awful things which have happened due to this AI boom.