Re: Chinese downloads overloading my website

Don Y <blockedofcourse@foo.invalid> wrote:

On 3/14/2024 9:26 AM, Peter wrote:

 
  Don Y <blockedofcourse@foo.invalid> wrote:
 

(Without having seen them...)  Can you create a PNG of a group
of them arranged in a matrix.  Then, a map that allows clicking
on any *part* of the composite image to provide a more detailed
"popup" to inspect?
>
I.e., each individual image is a trip back to the server to
fetch that image.  A single composite could reduce that to
one fetch with other actions conditional on whether or not
the user wants "more/finer detail"

 
All of this "graphical captcha" stuff is easy to hack if somebody is
out to trash *your* site.

 
If you are *targeted*, then all bets are off.  At the end of the
day, your adversary could put a REAL HUMAN to the task of hammering
away at it.

You could always have a question which involved correcting the English
grammar of a sentence, but that might eliminate far more of your
visitors than you intended.

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