Just over 5 years ago, as we were grappling with the fact that we were going to have to shut down the @openprivacy office, we were also dealing with our servers being brought down by an onslaught of traffic - a mass bot crawl campaign that has continued to this day.

We are a small org, with limited resources, so I'm unsurprised it's taken this long to start to see a significant number of larger services start to feel the impact.

https://social.kernel.org/notice/AsgziNL6zgmdbta3lY

K. Ryabitsev 🍁 (@[email protected])

I'm sad to say that we're following the lead of many others and putting in proof-of-work proxies into place to protect ourselves against "AI" crawler bots. Yes, I hate this as much as you, but all ...