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thawkade@lethallava.land
it might actually be over
https://9to5google.com/2025/08/25/android-apps-developer-verification/
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Daenney
ohno@dny.socialProof-of-work challenges have become the current hotness for defeating AI scrapers. I think itâs great we have these and that theyâre getting deployed to great effect. But Iâve also seen a lot of people claim the âAI scrapersâ problem is now solved and Iâm sorry to tell you this but no itâs not.
The reason itâs solved right now is because most of these scrapers donât execute JavaScript. But with enough people deploying PoW proxies, the economics around that change enough to make it worthwhile for AI companies to do so. AI companies have more money than you. Yes itâll cost them, but that cost is worth it to them because otherwise they donât have a business.
(Also Anubis and other solutions default to only triggering if the User-Agent header contains Mozilla so guess what! Itâll soon need to be enabled regardless of the value of that header because itâs trivial to circumvent. Then the cost goes up for the operator too as more and more users get affected.)
The JS needed for the PoW stuff isnât complicated. A small JS interpreter can handle that. What mostly remains is then the cost of the hash. Right now most things use SHA256, for which we have CPU extensions and AVX instructions to speed this up. Constantly increasing the PoW rounds doesnât solve this. Eventually the experience degrades too much for real users, whereas servers literally donât care. Nobody is sitting there waiting for the output to be rendered. All they want is to get the content to train on.
PoW proxies are a stopgap, and a very useful one. But a stopgap nonetheless. Weâre buying ourselves time. But weâre going to need more than this. Including legislation that outlaws some of this shit entirely.
AI is a technology, but the root of the problem weâre facing is a societal and political one. We cannot ignore those aspects and exclude them from a solution.
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I'm riding through Windows XP on my way home, anyone want anything? đ
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I misread that as "NNTP server" and thought, that's news to meâŠ
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Kiku
KikuTheFoxTallinn city centre as seen froâŠ
Part of Linnahall
Part of Linnahall
Tallinn's shore seen from LinnaâŠ
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And finished! It was a fun quick stitch and it absolutely looks better than 6 colours plus black would suggest.
Backstitching is my favourite part.
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M. J. Fromberger
creachadair@phire.placeInternet search inâŠ
1990: ask people you know for their FTP server address
1995: scroll through twenty pages of Altavista results
2000: ten blue links
2010: ten blue links below ten ads
2020: one useful link to Wikipedia below the fold, all ads above
2024: AI summary followed by ads followed by a Wikipedia link
2025: AI summary followed by AI summaries of ads followed by a Wikipedia link behind an AI summary
2026: ask people you know for their archive torrent address
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