UPDATE #3: Malverts, Cloudflare and Moving forward

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Update 3 or 4(?) on the ongoing saga that is Bot Defence Ultra 1000!

As visitors may have noticed, a "You're a robot, right?" Cloudflare challenge page may appear when looking through content on KatsBits. This is an automated check to mitigate the amount of aggressive bot traffic the site was getting hit by - bot traffic was consuming a sizable amount of resources to service their almost 1,000,000 requests (not necessarily page views) for data a week (or was it every 24 hrs?), energy that should have been available to humans actually reading/using the sites content.

Cloudflare blocks a significant amount of this - there are other options available but they're more intrusive and would potentially lock content behind a paywall, i.e. pay to access, which should obviously be avoided.

This does mean that, on the back of removing all network advertising, be it Google AdSense (rigged-game bleh!), Adsterra (holy disingenuous double-bleh batman!) or other services, largely because they can no longer be trusted to serve appropriate content, KatsBits needs your support, this can be done using Ko-Fi or Patreon.

They may still be a few teething issues in the short term as efforts to purge bot abuse need to be tweaked to catch all, if not as many as possible in the net. If you see anything untoward don't hesitate to send and alert on Discord or DMs via The Socials(TM) - "KatsBits" everywhere.