Hey ticoombs, I just saw this while trapezing around the fediverse. It’s a proof of work challenge via hashing to make AI scrappers bleed resources when trying to crawl our servers.
Could this be a potential measure against DDOS from scrappers when the server load is high? Or even as general protection with a low difficulty setting? What do you think?
Low difficulty challenge (appears for 1-3 seconds):
Difficulty 5 challenge (appears for 15-35 seconds):
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