This is a little bit of a wall of text but I hope it will be a nice sample for such a setup.

    • AYO_Official@lemmy.mlOP
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      26 days ago

      The principle is pretty simple : use a little bit of compute. If you’re a bot and want to visit many sites the cost will add up, if you are a human going to a website the 1 second cost for the initial page is not a big deal.

      Also notice the difference with the extremely annoying cloudflare checkbox asking if you are a human that became ubiquitous lately. I’d rather wait a second.

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        5 hours ago

        The cloudflare checkbox also loads for a second and redirects you 9/10 times.

        Captchas and whatnot have done what Anubis does (a bit fancier even) for a while