SQL Error & Slow connection! Bots are here...

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I messaged him the details privately & initially but it is invaluable to share the knowledge with you all.

In June 7th there were over 42000 users active, last time, it was 20000 users, this was a few days ago!
Today, there are 27948 users online. EDIT: As of June 9th, It is 78700 - I can provide more screenshots of the arising issues... I log often; I never save cookies, so I have to put in my password everytime... Thanks God a keylogger is not in my computer

These people are not real, otherwise the UT servers would be full for sure...


I found an unique anti-bot script that may be worth checking out.

Welcome to, Anubis. The bot stopper. Looking how to set it up should help...
You'll see a welcome page presenting you that it is solving a connection algorithm, shortly after, you'll be let in.

This is the official message from this script

Why am I seeing this?
You are seeing this because the administrator of this website has set up Anubis to protect the server against the scourge of AI companies aggressively scraping websites. This can and does cause downtime for the websites, which makes their resources inaccessible for everyone.

Anubis is a compromise. Anubis uses a Proof-of-Work scheme in the vein of Hashcash, a proposed proof-of-work scheme for reducing email spam. The idea is that at individual scales the additional load is ignorable, but at mass scraper levels it adds up and makes scraping much more expensive.

Ultimately, this is a hack whose real purpose is to give a "good enough" placeholder solution so that more time can be spent on fingerprinting and identifying headless browsers (EG: via how they do font rendering) so that the challenge proof of work page doesn't need to be presented to users that are much more likely to be legitimate.

Please note that Anubis requires the use of modern JavaScript features that plugins like JShelter will disable. Please disable JShelter or other such plugins for this domain.




Protected by Anubis from Techaro. Made with in .

Link to Anubis
Proof-Of-Work

You can see, this script does as little effort to stop a whole flood of bots.
Here are several pages - under the following lines - that employ this script.
FFMPEG's ultra powerful multimedia utility that I personally use - I made my animated Avatar with this!
Another example, using an external YouTube video player - Useful to save on bandwidth, but bots attacked it often too. Not anymore - It uses a variant that does not use modern JavaScript. Cool! This is the only variant I can run in Internet Explorer. Not that you should follow old browsers.

I'll keep us updated if bots go away or not. But currently I got an SQL Error when I was trying to hop onto my private messages.

If the attachment fails, I hide it under here

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I got a 503 error somewhile ago.

Hey Hermskii, do you usually restore the online users count? This does not appear to be any of the usual bot visits you're expecting and told me about.

An AI machine (An AI) may have set up an attack on your site. Potentially involuntarily, the later is speculation, I can't know nor care, but these guys/bots have to go.

I was looking for bits and I saw UT99.org already using a system of their own, I got caught as a bot!
Side by side you can see how you can get caught using an out of fashion browser!
Chrome on the right, & the one that I forgot the name about , to the left.