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matt_heimer10/10/20241 replyview on HN

That's up to the site owner.

For example I configured my osdev wiki (mediawiki based) so that the history and other special pages get the Cloudflare test but just viewing a page doesn't trigger it. OpenAI and other bots were generating way too much traffic to pages they don't need.

Blame the bots that are DDOS'ing sites for the captchas.


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BlueTemplar10/11/2024

Wait a minute, DDoSing is illegal, how come OpenAI et al. haven't gotten sued to the ground yet ??

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