em own hundreds of IP addresses, it’s not possible to throttle them based on requests alone. Multiple targets, Arch Wiki included, decided to deploy a client-side proof-of-work mechanism: Anubis from Techaro.⁽¹⁾⁽²⁾ This runs a small program, that does “expensive” operation in the browser. It’s nothing for normal users, even if we count all users together. But it’s a notable cost to companies doing billions requests. Cheers ____ ⁽¹⁾ https://techaro.lol/ ⁽²⁾ Screenshot of what you didn’t se: https://0x0.st/8VRo.pngNotice that flashed on wiki access today - too fast to read - was it important?mpan undefinedarch-general@lists.archlinux.org undefined2j