Anti-Scraper Measures

FreshBSD is now protected by Anubis — a JavaScript proof-of-work anti-scraper mechanism.

While FreshBSD has always tolerated a certain degree of scraper activity, for the past week or more I’ve been seeing a constant stream of requests — more than one per second — which are effectively indistinguishable from legitimate traffic. As a small hobby project ran out of a household attic, it’s difficult to turn a blind eye to this kind of abuse.

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