ufw-bots vs friendly-pow

ufw-bots

List of datacenter IPs to block and script to automate it. (by brahma-dev)

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friendly-pow

The PoW challenge library used by Friendly Captcha (by FriendlyCaptcha)

assemblyscript WebAssembly Captcha

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ufw-bots		friendly-pow
	Project
1	Mentions	2
12	Stars	185
-	Growth	2.2%
9.3	Activity	0.0
6 days ago	Latest Commit	over 1 year ago
Shell	Language	TypeScript
MIT License	License	MIT License

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Activity is a relative number indicating how actively a project is being developed. Recent commits have higher weight than older ones.
For example, an activity of 9.0 indicates that a project is amongst the top 10% of the most actively developed projects that we are tracking.

ufw-bots

Posts with mentions or reviews of ufw-bots. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2022-02-14.

Business owners with contact me website pages: What is your "self host" captcha solution?
7 projects | /r/selfhosted | 14 Feb 2022

And, if this trick is not enough for you. You might want to use this https://github.com/brahma-dev/ufw-bots/tree/master/files to block requests coming from data centers.

friendly-pow

Posts with mentions or reviews of friendly-pow. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2022-02-14.

Business owners with contact me website pages: What is your "self host" captcha solution?
7 projects | /r/selfhosted | 14 Feb 2022

It kinda does? Here's the puzzle creator library: https://github.com/FriendlyCaptcha/friendly-pow
Is WebAssembly magic performance pixie dust?
8 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 14 Apr 2021

Yeah, WebAssembly have i64/u64 types as first class citizens unlike JavaScript which should emulate it or use BigInt which drastically slower than native 64-bit types. That's why crypto algorithms got a lot of speed benefits. AssemblyScript also show this. See this:
https://github.com/FriendlyCaptcha/friendly-pow

What are some alternatives?

When comparing ufw-bots and friendly-pow you can also consider the following projects:

visualCaptcha - visualCaptcha's Main Repo. This is a collection of all the different versions/repos of visualCaptcha.

friendly-challenge - The widget and docs for the proof of work challenge used in Friendly Captcha. Protect your websites and online services from spam and abuse with Friendly Captcha, a privacy-first anti-bot solution.

docker - mmguero's miscellaneous Dockerfiles, docker-compose.yml files, related scripts and configuration.

wasup - A zero-dependency, isomorphic library for emitting WebAssembly

securimage - PHP CAPTCHA Script

iswasmfast - Performance comparison of WebAssembly, C++ Addon, and native implementations of various algorithms in Node.js.

expresscpp - Fast, unopinionated, minimalist web framework for C++ Perfect for building REST APIs

rabin-wasm - Rabin fingerprinting implemented in WASM

2d-videogame-in-assemblyscript - Demo 2D videogame in AssemblyScript 🚀

human-asmjs - Tips and tricks for writing asm.js as a human - Note: WebAssembly has replaced asm.js, so this is no longer maintained.

hashcash-js - Generic javascript implementation of hashcash