Comment by graemep
2 days ago
> AI bots can't solve proof-of-work challenges because browsers they use for scraping don't support features needed to solve them.
At least sometimes. I do not know about AI scraping but there are plenty of scraping solutions that do run JS.
It also puts of some genuine users like me who prefer to keep JS off.
The 97% is only accurate if you assume a zero false positive rate.
> "It also puts of some genuine users like me who prefer to keep JS off."
Non-javascript challenges are also available[1].
> "The 97% is only accurate if you assume a zero false positive rate."
GNOME's gitlab instance is not something people visit daily like Wikipedia, so it's a negligible amount of false positives.
[1] - https://git.gammaspectra.live/git/go-away/wiki/Challenges#no...
> Non-javascript challenges are also available
Did not know that. Good news
> NOME's gitlab instance is not something people visit daily like Wikipedia, so it's a negligible amount of false positives.
As an absolute number, yes, but as a proportion?