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?

    • GenosseFlosse@feddit.org
      7·
      1 day ago

      I already looked into something similar, IP banning does not work. One day i got ~120k unique IPs, but the most active one only made ~100 requests. I would gain nothing if i run any script to lookup the IP with each requests (and using up more resources in the process), if it fails 99% of the time because the next hit is a different IP.

      • mesa@piefed.socialEnglish
        4·
        1 day ago

        Ok. Sounds like your in a unique situation. Good luck. You seem fucked.

        All the above worked for me.

        • CorrectAlias@piefed.blahaj.zoneEnglish
          1·
          16 hours ago

          I also have the same problem as who you’re replying to on a few of my websites. The only way to block them is Anubis or Cloudflare WAF.

          I think you might be in the unique situation, to be honest. It may only be a matter of time until your solution also stops working.

          • grysbok@lemmy.sdf.orgEnglish
            1·
            9 hours ago

            Agreed. The current situation seems to be a gazillion bots each making a single request. I’ve had some luck blocking whole ASNs (Alibaba, I’m glaring at you), and Anubis. I’ve had pretty good uptime the last few months.