I just started using this myself, seems pretty great so far!

Clearly doesn’t stop all AI crawlers, but a significantly large chunk of them.

  • Daniel Quinn@lemmy.ca
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    18 hours ago

    It’s a rather brilliant idea really, but when you consider the environmental implications of forcing web requests to ensure proof of work to function, this effectively burns a more coal for every site that implements it.

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      15 hours ago

      I don’t think AI companies care, and I wholeheartedly support any and all FOSS projects using PoW when serving their websites. I’d rather have that than have them go down