From: ant@zimage.comANT
NFN Smith wrote:
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> I'm guessing that the excess traffic issue is coming AI bot scraping.
> Even when archives get moved, it may not be long before the AI scrapers
> find that site, and start imposing their overhead costs there, as well.
> I'm aware of several sites that are defending themselves against that by
> putting their content behind a CloudFlare CAPTCHA.
> One of the effects of sites with CloudFlare is that Seamonkey 2.53.22
> isn't handling the CAPTCHA dialog correctly, and the only way to get to
> the content of a site that's using that is to use another browser.
> Right now, I'm grateful to have the old OpenWith extension installed, as
> I use that extensively, and it's annoying that the developer has not
> only quit developing it, but where the XUL/pre-Quantum has been removed
> entirely.
> Although I would love to see Seamonkey's capacities upgrade to be able
> to support the CloudFlare CAPTCHA in a future release.
> At the same time, I wonder if it would be feasible/possible to integrate
> OpenWith into the Seamonkey code directly.
> I recognize that the amount of necessary work for either one of those
> may be significant, so I'm not complaining, and I will happily accept
> whatever the devs produce.
Ditto. I had to use Firefox a lot more these days! :(
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