From 6801ce299a3a0016bae08ee8f64602aeb0274659 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: kim <grufwub@gmail.com>
Date: Wed, 17 Sep 2025 14:16:53 +0200
Subject: [chore] remove nollamas middleware for now (after discussions with a
 security advisor) (#4433)

i'll keep this on a separate branch for now while i experiment with other possible alternatives, but for now both our hacky implementation especially, and more popular ones (like anubis) aren't looking too great on the deterrent front: https://github.com/eternal-flame-AD/pow-buster

Co-authored-by: tobi <tobi.smethurst@protonmail.com>
Reviewed-on: https://codeberg.org/superseriousbusiness/gotosocial/pulls/4433
Co-authored-by: kim <grufwub@gmail.com>
Co-committed-by: kim <grufwub@gmail.com>
---
 web/template/nollamas.tmpl | 43 -------------------------------------------
 1 file changed, 43 deletions(-)
 delete mode 100644 web/template/nollamas.tmpl

(limited to 'web/template')

diff --git a/web/template/nollamas.tmpl b/web/template/nollamas.tmpl
deleted file mode 100644
index a7511e7ae..000000000
--- a/web/template/nollamas.tmpl
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,43 +0,0 @@
-{{- /*
-// GoToSocial
-// Copyright (C) GoToSocial Authors admin@gotosocial.org
-// SPDX-License-Identifier: AGPL-3.0-or-later
-//
-// This program is free software: you can redistribute it and/or modify
-// it under the terms of the GNU Affero General Public License as published by
-// the Free Software Foundation, either version 3 of the License, or
-// (at your option) any later version.
-//
-// This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful,
-// but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of
-// MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE.  See the
-// GNU Affero General Public License for more details.
-//
-// You should have received a copy of the GNU Affero General Public License
-// along with this program.  If not, see <http://www.gnu.org/licenses/>.
-*/ -}}
-
-{{- with . }}
-<main>
-    <section class="nollamas"
-        data-nollamas-seed="{{ .seed }}"
-        data-nollamas-challenge="{{ .challenge }}"
-    >
-        <h1>Checking you're not a creepy crawler...</h1>
-        <noscript>
-            <p>
-                The page you're visiting is guarded from "ai" scrapers
-                and other crawlers by a proof-of-work challenge.
-            </p>
-            <p>
-                Unfortunately, this means that Javascript is required.
-                To see the page, <b>please enable Javascript and try again</b>.
-            </p>
-            <aside>
-                Once your browser has completed the challenge, you can turn
-                Javascript off again if you like. Revalidation is done once per hour.
-            </aside>
-        </noscript>
-    </section>
-</main>
-{{- end }}
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