Sadly, all of the small shops in my country for electronics and hobby stuff all have these pages (you don’t need to disable your adblocker for cloudflare challenges) because of AI. They didn’t have them a year and a half ago.
Ai companies have been DDOSing all small websites so badly that they have to use this (or Anubis) in order to actually have a usable website for actual humans.
now i kmow AI is awful for just about everything, but one thing they’ve got going for them is that they may be able to summarize any page on the internet and bypass all manner of restrictions. alternatively there’s also the google web archive which shares googlebot findings (often whitelisted) or other archival sites, or reader mode
i absolutely agree. Sometimes I am wondering why the AI can access all pages (even local ones or open models hosted on other servers), but I am marked as a robot every time 😅 Who’s the robot?
Honestly on ublock for most websites it’s pretty easy to just delete the “turn off your adblocker” popup. Some websites genuinely won’t work with an adblocker on though unfortunately.
I do this first. If it doesn’t work then I like those above your comment just go elsewhere. If they are the only one then I wait for it to show up on an archive site. If I actually need it then I break out the day job skills and write up custom adblock scripts to bypass their detection. I’ll spend hours doing it out of spite. Then I write up scripts that clear my cache and refresh the page over and over and over when I’m not using my PC to drive up their hosting costs.
For me, this is evidence that I am navigating to a page that I don’t need to navigate to.
Sadly, all of the small shops in my country for electronics and hobby stuff all have these pages (you don’t need to disable your adblocker for cloudflare challenges) because of AI. They didn’t have them a year and a half ago.
Ai companies have been DDOSing all small websites so badly that they have to use this (or Anubis) in order to actually have a usable website for actual humans.
And if you need to use the side?
Most alternative pages nowadays use the same techniques as wellm
now i kmow AI is awful for just about everything, but one thing they’ve got going for them is that they may be able to summarize any page on the internet and bypass all manner of restrictions. alternatively there’s also the google web archive which shares googlebot findings (often whitelisted) or other archival sites, or reader mode
i absolutely agree. Sometimes I am wondering why the AI can access all pages (even local ones or open models hosted on other servers), but I am marked as a robot every time 😅 Who’s the robot?
Yeah I’d rather just load a different page.
Not disabling my adblocker for any reason.
Honestly on ublock for most websites it’s pretty easy to just delete the “turn off your adblocker” popup. Some websites genuinely won’t work with an adblocker on though unfortunately.
I do this first. If it doesn’t work then I like those above your comment just go elsewhere. If they are the only one then I wait for it to show up on an archive site. If I actually need it then I break out the day job skills and write up custom adblock scripts to bypass their detection. I’ll spend hours doing it out of spite. Then I write up scripts that clear my cache and refresh the page over and over and over when I’m not using my PC to drive up their hosting costs.
Plenty of other pages on the www : )
Or it’s time to check the way back machine or archive.is
Archive.is is the worst offender for this. The only page I can’t get to load, just keeps showing the goddamn cloudflare and refreshing back to it.
I’ve had that happen to me on archive.is 🙃