Hello mlpI run a search engine called 4get, a search engine proxy. Lately I have seen an increase in bot requests, and I was wondering if any of you would be willing to share with me SFW image sets of ponies for a JS-free captcha. I need lots and lots of ponies.Preferably, it should be a private collection of images so that you can't easily train a local AI to break it.If you choose to share your collections with me, it should be emailed to me privately. :)Thanks a bunch i love you all
I also forgot to say my email is will <at> lolcat ca
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>>43514253Anon, just got to a booru, or tell mares to post in the thread itself instead of mail
>>43514273oh i forgot about boorus, ill look into that. thanks anon
>>43514289Tell us more about your search engine. Why do you want to filter out non-horsefuckers?
>>43514294i dont want normies to use my website. its meant for people who do real research. open minded people will simply look past the ponies or think theyre cool. closed minded people looking up the front page for facebook will simply stop using the site.
>>43514297Fair enough. But, how will you keep an AI from breaking it? PNGs of ponies seems like a poor choice of captcha since they are:>Known characters with tens of thousands of images on the internet>Designed to be easily recognizable from just their silhouettes and/or color schemes
>>43514301yeah im very aware of that. I need to stop procrastinating and make the website invite-only, like those private trackers. The captcha stuff is just a temporary stopgap. I have experimented with a lot of ideas like randomly rotating shapes where you need to pick the odd one out, or captchas where you need to match chinese characters. AI can break all of those very easily now. Hell, I gave chatGPT the 4chan captcha and it was able to solve it.Right now I think i'll be scraping 1-2k pony images and download that pornstar face collection from EMP.
>>43514273>>43514289The main problem about boorus is that they're scraped to death. You can go to /fast/ here >>43450598 but I can tell you that they're constantly under attack by AI scrapers. You can't use the images there because they're probably already indexed by the scrapers. Add on top of that archivers are constantly adding new images to them so not all art is safe for you to use.
>>43514334Yeah I've been lurking around the board for around an hour now and I can tell this isn't as niche as I thought it was. Thanks for the insights xx
>>43514313Anon, scraper bots won't solve the captcha. Any captcha. Not because it can't solve it, but because it takes too much effort. If there are other sources of information it can scrape which requires less effort (thus overall it can gather more information) it will do that.It is enough if you put a button saying "click here first before continuing" which runs a tiny JS code calling some webassembly which just returns a constant then send that constant to the server for verification, then you whitelist that IP for X amount of time or set a cookie or whatever. If the scraper sees that there is webassemly required to continue it will give up immediately. It does not need to actually do any computation intensive stuff or be anywhere near complex. As I said just return a constant number.Also ponies are not niche. During the peak 50000 posts were made here alone daily. There are tens of millions of fanart on the internet.If you put ponies as captcha it won't be hard for bots to solve it at all.Same for porn star faces. That would actually deter me because I know like 2. One because of a meme, the other one because she did pony cosplay porn.So again, just put a simple button "click here to continue". That's enough and will deter 99.9% of the bots. Bots don't like to run webassembly or make post requests.
>>43514253Derpibooru?
>>43514253>>I run a search engine called 4getI've been using you since that brief moment Librewolf included your metasearchit's pretty neat, thanks manI can email you about 200 images of Dainbow Dash, ~100 of Derpy Hooves and a few hundreds of pics of other characters. Are you targeting just M6 or all the "popular" MLP characters? also 4get Gold when???
>>43514297>its meant for people who do real researchbro I use it as my normal search enginethe only "research" I did with it is googling my dox and managing to remove it from the Internet
>>43514261Princess of music
>>43514253>4getOh hey I actually self host your engine, cool project.
imo just seeing ponies in the captcha is cool :)
>>43514253do you know that one of your "find a bird" captcha images is from /mlp/, right?pic rel
>>43514604just clear looking images that look legible enough scaled down to 100x100. ty xxxx>>43514545well "pornstars" would just be faces. You'd need to click on the faces, I guess. lol. I feel like it would break their current captcha solver is all.>>43514681and yeah, this desu.
>>43514880oh yeah thats totally possible. the bird imageset is from a friend's personal collection. he really really likes birds.
>>43514297>i dont want normies to use my websiteHonestly pretty based
>>43515130>the bird imageset is from a friend's personal collection. he really really likes birdsis he Vincent?>>43515111>just clear looking images that look legible enough scaled down to 100x100. ty xxxxnah I'm just asking if you need pony images because you're just adding "find ponies" to your current minecraft/birds/etc rotation OR you are turning the captcha into "find [pony name]"
>>43515163You can also do what Twibooru or Ponerpics does, if you want to use ponies to deter normies. Go to https://ponerpics.org/images/7569380 for example, click the Tags button and then check the "I'm not a robot" checkbox for an example. Twibooru uses one where you have to match faces of Twi with her expression (sad, angry, etc.). You can also use pony faces instead of cutie marks like Ponerpics does, since CMs might be a bit too obscure for the more average person. But most people who are not normies should be able to match a pony face (of the Mane 6) with a name.
>>43515181Also, this one works with Javascript, IIRC.
>>43515188*without, I mean. Fuck.
>>43515181Also, using ponies with different facial expressions will bar autists with facial blindness lol
>>43515181I would use this one and make one which asks 6 questions, like:"Applejack is [happy/sad/angry/etc]Fluttershy is [happy/sad/angry/etc]etc."So you have a slightly bigger dataset of images (an different expression for each pony). Here's the source code for the Twibooru Captcha if I'm not mistaken: https://github.com/derpibooru/booru-on-rails/blob/master/lib/captcha.rb (yes it's in some ghastly hipster language but it should give you an idea).
one anon sent me his collection. i have 722 images now!! If someone else could do the same I would have enough for now.
>>43515497also i forgot to say im really thankful for this
>>43515503you're welcomewould be fun to have my ponies/ directory present publicly for people to see hope you kek'd at some of my filenames
getting drawings on my site asking me to remove the ponies. weirdly enough the IP is from M247 (proxy). I think its working lol
>>43516394good job!>G^WHYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYY
