From: soulkarsten@gmail.com   
      
   TheSat, 22 Nov 2025 15:27:59 +0000, Colin Macleod wrote:   
      
   > 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.   
      
   Very interesting. Oh and by the way it's kind of an honor to have you   
   here with us, many use yourservice to post in here.   
      
      
      
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