2 Jul
2025
2 Jul
'25
12:20 p.m.
On Wed, Jul 02, 2025 at 12:50:28PM +0200, niels=nanog--- via NANOG wrote:
Have you been following the news at all lately? Website operators are complaining left and right about the load from scrapers related to AI companies. They're seeing 10x, 100x the normal visitor load, with not just User-Agents but also source IP addresses masked to present as regular visitors. Captchas is unfortunately one of the more visible ways to address this, even if not perfect.
"Not perfect" is an interesting way to describe this, given that the very AI companies this claims to be effective against are the same AI companies who can, at will, defeat every captcha. This tactic is like trying to drown the ocean. ---rsk