alt Hacker NewsOkay but it's like no RAM at all. Thats the problem: you've got stupid bots causing a bunch of issues - these can be stopped.
And then regular users: who now can't really browse your site.
And then smart bots - anyone with even a moderate amount of funding in the AI space, who aren't even slightly slowed down.
The solution basically makes the favored customer well funded AI scrapers, not users.
> And then regular users: who now can't really browse your site.
That's entirely up to how the site operator configures the PoW challenge.
> anyone with even a moderate amount of funding in the AI space, who aren't even slightly slowed down
Do you have any evidence that it is the large well funded AI companies DoSing sites by (for example) scraping absurd numbers of permutations of cgit url parameters?
Even if it is (which I doubt), if all this accomplishes is getting them to spend 10 minutes optimizing their bots to not do that it will be a major win.