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I feel you and feel for you. I really do hope you get a reprieve because dealing with this is nonsense.

👋 Hi, I really hope iocaine works for you and I think it still might be wise to temper expectations. Some background, I work in bot detection and mitigation.

I quickly tried reading through their code and documentation but I don’t see the main detection mechanism that determines human vs bot other than what you mentioned as an example. If it’s user agent based, it is trivially easy to spoof as you already know. I am finding in my work that these companies do not keep the user agent they report in their documentation when challenged.

My second concern was the page the reverse proxy served when spoofing my user agent. The DOM was nowhere close to that of Lemmy and I think it’s important to point out that a simple check for specific elements on the page will keep the bot from poisoning itself.

I admit I could be too close to this problem to see other solutions, and I really hope it works. It sucks that this is a problem. I wish there were more open source options too.

If for some reason this solution doesn’t work, and if anyone is interested in help, I am more than happy to freely offer my knowledge.

Thanks!

Which theater?

Welcome to ABQ. ☹️

I did the same thing. I just want a product or service that doesn’t leverage AI. Mozilla’s resources are better spent improving the web.

That’s so nice to hear. Hopefully it becomes a yearly tradition to watch it.

We introduced it to our daughter this year. She was a little scared but enjoyed it nonetheless. I caught myself wishing there were more shows like it, but it’s so unique and that’s probably why I love it so much.

It really is a wonderful show. I watched it again recently because it’s that time of year, so this was on my mind. 😁

Phone books were useful at one point, though less so for individuals.

Not saying you’re wrong but it reminded me of a moment when I was a kid. I was all of five years old when I got lost in rural Arizona. I was visiting my grandparents and my cousin and I went out looking for turtles after a monsoon the night before. I got separated from my older cousin and then lost. I wandered around for hours until I found the main road that led through a nearby small town. I managed to hitchhike to the local trading post where the clerk managed to find my grandparents phone number to let them know they had found me.

They were sometimes useful. Also, they were great for prank calls.

I guess if you can’t beat them it’s the next best thing.

My mom taught me growing up that you can never be too professional. Going by that advice, I think A & B at the same time is the clear answer.

I hear the headless body of Spiro Agnew is on the shortlist.

“Look, Laura Loomer is not affiliated with the Trump campaign. She said something about curry in the White House that I first read about this morning actually, because I knew that you would ask me about it…” [emphasis my own]

These guys are terrible liars. Between him and Trump, they sound like they have no idea what is going on.

Don’t let your memes be dreams.

You should just become a drug dealing Onlyfans girl then. 🤷

Goodness, this could be my cat. I have a torty named Moosie that looks very similar.

3 mewnutos!

Reddit.

This is correct. I work in bot detections. There are baseline checks for various browser automation used as bot frameworks like Puppeteer or Playwright. Then there is basic analysis of server side and client side fingerprints; meaning, do the fingerprints you claim make sense. There are other heuristics too and I imagine Cloudflare is monitoring movements that point to automation. All of this happens after you click. I personally prefer this over Google’s captcha which frequently doesn’t recognize me as a human but is easily bypassed by bots.