For a very long time, the Internet has been overwhelmed with bots. Web-crawlers, AI scrapers, botnets, spammers, and fake users. Over the last few years, it's has gotten exponentially worse, and we're not left unscathed. These bots hurt the open Internet by taking up processing power and bandwidth of sites, often making them expensive to maintain. It's not easy to block them either, with a majority bypassing most systems in place made to prevent them, and bad drones often succeed to pose as real users.
The best possible way to handle this is by work. We're currently implementing a new anti-bot system called
Checkpoint that challenges the users browser before letting them pass. While a trivial short wait period for a normal user, can help halt or slow the progress of the usual bots by making them repeatedly solve complex math equations. Most anti-ddos measures already use this method in various different forms.
We're alpha-testing this software to report bugs and help contribute not only to the open-source, but to the open Internet. For now, there are a few issues you'll come across. We've reported every issue we've faced and hope to solve them and improve Checkpoints functionality.
Bare with us and let us know of any issues. Keep in mind that support for older browsers is non-existent and that not all software will play nicely. If you use a relatively modern browser, you should be good to go.