alt Hacker NewsNot on topic, but wow the internet has very quickly devolved into: click -> "making sure you're not a bot", click -> "making sure you're a human", click -> "COOKIES COOKIES COOKIES", click -> "cloudflare something something"
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The internet is such a Tragedy of the Commons… its citizens that act selfishly and in bad faith will slowly make it unusable.
Nearly every single website I'm not logged into these days want me to "confirm I'm not a bot".
it is incredibly annoying but what can you do? AI scrapers ruined the web.
No one's even clicking anymore, everything implores me to tap or swipe these days, and everything is optimised for humans with one eye above the other.
Then I press the X to close the all-caps banner commanding me to install the app, upon which I get sent to the app store. Users of the website refer to it as an app.
Wow I’m glad it’s not just me. I thought my IP block had gotten caught up in some known spamming or something.
At least this one was significantly faster than Cloudflare and required no action on my part.
I get exactly none of that. Is your adblocker still working?
renders your gigabit connection pointless
We had to set it up on the parts of VideoLAN infra so the service would remain usable.
Otherwise it was under a constant DDoS by the AI bots.