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Dealing with bots

Anna “CyberTailor” cyber at sysrq.in

Thu Oct 28 00:51:18 BST 2021

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I've stumbled upon a clever way to stop bots from accessing dynamiccontent and infinite loops: a simple captcha!

gemini://topotun.hldns.ru/cgi-bin/lock.cgi < 10 Protection against bots. What is 2+2?(translated ru-en)

It's so obvious but I've never thought about it lol.

This article has /brilliant/ captcha ideas by the way:=> https://nearcyan.com/you-probably-dont-need-recaptcha/

My all-time favorites are:

https://wiki.gentoo.org/wiki/Special:CreateAccount
https://math.stackexchange.com/questions/2266227/solving-math-captcha-involving-a-limit-and-sin1-x/2266239=
https://lurkmore.to/Матановая_капча