On Fri, Feb 8, 2019 at 6:20 PM Pine W <wiki.p...@gmail.com> wrote: > I don't know how practical it would be to implement an approach like this > in the Wikiverse, and whether licensing proprietary technology would be > required. >
They are talking about Polyform [1], a reverse proxy that filters traffic with a combination of browser fingerprinting, behavior analysis and proof of work. Proof of work is not really useful unless you have huge levels of bot traffic from a single bot operator (also it means locking out users with no Javascript); browser and behavior analysis very likely cannot be outsourced to a third party for privacy reasons. Maybe we could do it ourselves (although it would still bring up interesting questions privacy-wise) but it would be a huge undertaking. [1] https://www.kasada.io/product/ _______________________________________________ Wikitech-l mailing list Wikitech-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l
