That very much reads like the rant of someone who is sick and tired of the state of things.
I’m afraid that it doesn’t change anything in of itself and any sorts of solutions to only allow the users that you’re okay with are what’s direly needed all across the web.
Though reading about the people trying to mine crypto on a CI solution, it feels that sometimes it won’t just be LLM scrapers that you need to protect against but any number of malicious people.
At that point, you might as well run an invite only community.
Source Hut implemented Anubis, and it works so well. I mostly never see the waiting screen. And after it whitelists me for a very long time, so I work without any limitations.
I just worry about the idea of running public/free services on the web, due to the potential for misuse and bad actors, though making things paid also seems sensible, e.g. what was linked: https://man.sr.ht/ops/builds.sr.ht-migration.md
I’m afraid that it doesn’t change anything in of itself and any sorts of solutions to only allow the users that you’re okay with are what’s direly needed all across the web.
Though reading about the people trying to mine crypto on a CI solution, it feels that sometimes it won’t just be LLM scrapers that you need to protect against but any number of malicious people.
At that point, you might as well run an invite only community.