From: user7@newsgrouper.org.invalid   
      
   Water Fountain  posted:   
   >   
   > In fact, allow me to hijack this thread and ask if anyone has an opinion   
   > on Anubis https://github.com/TecharoHQ/anubis   
   > I don't want to force users to run JS, and even less so to do useless   
   > math anytime they visist. But it seems necessary in today's internet.   
      
   I don't use Anubis, but I do have a simple method of blocking bots   
   without requiring javascript which has been successful so far.   
      
   On my newsgrouper.org site I have registered users and guest users.   
   When you log in as a guest I generate a random cookie, record it,   
   and send it with the response.  Then I check that every subsequent   
   request has a valid cookie.  If not they just get the login page.   
      
   No doubt one of these days the scrapers will evolve to get past that,   
   but for now it works fine.   
      
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