anyone knows how Jwz solution is working?

dont click next link because he will show a nutsack image if the referrer contains hackernews. love the guy.

www.jwz.org/blog/2025/01/exterminate-all-rational-ai-scrapers/

basically, instead of blocking, he just poison it. and if a human sees it, it takes less effort to ignore the nonsense than it takes your pocket computer to deal with proof of work.