I’m getting really tired of “verify you’re not a bot” checks everywhere.

I understand these checks help prevent bots, but they seem to appear on so many websites now. Does anyone else find them frustrating?

  • twistabledeer@lemmy.world
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    4 days ago

    Cloudflare is getting rich from all of these bots. We had turn to Cloudflare at work because bots were scraping our website and essentially DDoSing. Cloudflare worked perfectly and rate limiting bot scraping.

    • JigglySackles@lemmy.world
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      3 days ago

      I wouldn’t be surprised if they make some of the bots they stop. It’d be like the people who bred snakes to get money for killing them in India.