Re: Captchas on Cloudflare-Proxied Sites

[niels=nanog--- via NANOG <nanog () lists nanog org>]

* nanog () immibis com [Sun 06 Jul 2025, 20:46 CEST]:
> As far as I'm aware, or as far as anyone's ever made me aware when I 
> asked, there remains zero evidence that the high-intensity 
> high-anonymity bots some sites are seeing have anything to do with 
> AI.
>
> If they are AI, a court just ruled that AI scraping is fair use, so 
> maybe you should offer them a zipped copy of your site and they 
> won't have to scrape it.
>
> The actual reason for CAPTCHAs is revenue. Site operators would like 
> to give a zipped copy of their sites to OpenAI - for $100,000. And 
> they want that to be the only way OpenAI can get a copy.

The FSF disagrees: 
https://news.slashdot.org/story/25/07/06/1737253/the-fsf-faces-active-ongoing-and-increasing-ddos-attacks


        -- Niels.
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