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3dcadmin@lemmy.relayeasy.com to Selfhosted@lemmy.worldEnglish · 1 day ago

Cloudflare blocking AI crawlers

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Cloudflare blocking AI crawlers

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3dcadmin@lemmy.relayeasy.com to Selfhosted@lemmy.worldEnglish · 1 day ago
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Cloudflare trying to stop AI crawling somehow!

https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2025/07/pay-up-or-stop-scraping-cloudflare-program-charges-bots-for-each-crawl/

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    20 hours ago

    All this discussion about captchas raises a question for me: if fingerprinting is so accurate and easy, that ublock, no cookies and a VPN don’t help… then why the fuck do I have to keep doing captchas?

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      Because it never was about security. You’re training LLMs for free.

      I’m pretty sure some auto drive company is getting the advantage since a lot of captchas are spotting crosswalks, traffic lights, stairs, busses, mountains, motorcycles etc. Wonder if it’s fucking tesla

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        I’m pretty sure some auto drive company is getting the advantage

        I’d recon that a lot of that is spliced from pictures captured from Google Map vehicles.

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          Both you and @DoucheBagMcSwag@lemmy.dbzer0.com are correct. Google bought reCAPTCHA in 2012.

          Here’s an article about it from 2018.

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          Captcha if you can: how you’ve been training AI for years without realising it

          And another from 2019! Captchas got harder for us because the AI had learned from our training.

          Why CAPTCHAs have gotten so difficult

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            Fucking hell

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