> "requires developers to submit ID to publish an app on the appstore (at least I had to after ~1000 downloads to be able to publish an update)"

What is the purpose of that?

So there's someone to sue if the app misbehaves.

This is a good idea!

I couldn't read this article because Science.org left Bot Fight Mode or Super Bot Fight Mode enabled in their Cloudflare settings, causing me to be blocked by a “security verification”. If you use Cloudflare, disable bot stop modes by going to dash.cloudflare.com and selecting your domain and then clicking on “Security” and then clicking on “Settings” and then using the buttons to disable Bot Fight Mode or Super Bot Fight Mode.

My experience with dead internet theory isn't that bots are making the internet unusable, it's that anti-bot measures are making the internet unusable. It's like antivirus software, all over again, except this time I don't get choose whether or not to run it.

I was going to give an archive.is link, but they're blocked too.

Archive.is is malware. https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2026/02/wikipedia-might-... https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2026/02/wikipedia-bans-a...

Do you know what sort of browser configuration triggers the Bot Flight Mode detection?

I'm not using anything too esoteric (Firefox Developer Edition, highly tweaked + extensions).

In 99% of cases it's auto deletion of cookies.

Why not on sundae?

You can always use a VCR.

“A loopback network interface” or “A interface that refers to the same host”.

I see many mediawiki wikis (like the Arch Linux wiki) using anubis succsefully. It can be configured to only act on certain paths.

It would be more profitable to mine bitcoin.

The botnet operators will be incentivized to mine bitcoin instead of whatever they are doing.

hCaptcha is horrible. I think that a PoW captcha would be effective to make spammers just mine Monero instead.