Comment by plagiarist
Comment by plagiarist 17 hours ago
Aha, that's where the anime girl is from. What sort of traffic was getting past that but still thwarted by the cookie tactic?
I guess the bots are all spoofing consumer browser UAs and just the slightest friction outside of well-known tooling will deter them completely.
Yep, that’s why that’s all over the place now. The cookie thing is more of a first line of defense. It turns away a lot of shoddy scrapers with nearly no resources on my side. Anubis knocks out almost all of the remainder.