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everytime i check nginx logs its more scrapers then i can count and i could not find any good open source solutions

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[–] Typewar 2 points 19 hours ago* (last edited 19 hours ago) (1 children)

I have a dumb question.. what is preventing the crawlers from just eating the shit and just burn though the energy to get through the computational task?

[–] savvywolf@pawb.social 1 points 11 hours ago

It'll still slow them down and reduce load on your server. I also think many of these crawlers focus on volume; time spent computing the hash is time not spent crawling someone else's site.