There’s a functional difference between forcing a crawler to interact with code on your server that wastes its time, and getting it to download your code and run it on its own server - the issue being where the actual CPU/GPU/APU cycles happen. If they happen on your server then it’s not benefiting you at all, it’s costing you the same amount as just running the cryptominer directly would.
Any halfway intelligent administrator would never allow an automated routine to download and run arbitrary code on their own system, it would be a massive security risk.
plz1@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
“Proof of work”. The AI crawlers don’t run Javascript (yet, I don’t think), so it’s basically a firewall to them.
Aatube@kbin.melroy.org 3 weeks ago
I'm fairly sure Anubis was made because some crawlers did run JavaScript
Little8Lost@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
Some can from what i understood
And not only JS but other code too like SQL
I remember the somewhat recent case where someone vibecoded something and the AI viped the database
Aatube@kbin.melroy.org 3 weeks ago
That's a local AI agent not an online crawler