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Re: Fastly bot blocker on packages.debian.org is awful



Hello,

the PoW challenges used in some places under *.debian.org can now be
solved with a WebExtension [1] I've made for myself.  Without the need
to surrender to the (not even clearly licensed) JS that is dynamically
served by the site.

[1] https://git.koszko.org/simple-browser-extension/commit/?id=f6919c603417b0e64f1c355f207f9b38a7a6e574

Perhaps some of you will find this useful as well :)

Best!
Wojtek

PS. I am not subscribed to debian-user@.  Please Cc koszko@koszko.org.
    Thanks!

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On Thu, 16 Apr 2026 08:42:45 +0200
<tomas@tuxteam.de> wrote:

> On Wed, Apr 15, 2026 at 07:10:04PM +0200, W. Kosior wrote:
> 
> [...]
> 
> > Yes, I am disabling JS and the website says "Please enable JavaScript
> > to proceed." then.  
> 
> I share your feeling. Actually, I avoid JS-only websites unless I
> really, really need them.
> 
> [...]
> 
> > [1] https://git.koszko.org/stop-crawlers?then=simple-browser-extension%2Flog%2F  
> 
> Thanks for the pointer! I'm myself interested in such solutions/ideas.
> 
> Cheers


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