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Nope, it's not malware or "shady" - it's a very widely used bot-prevention service by Cloudflare, a reputable company, and it's specifically designed to be privacy-preserving: https://blog.cloudflare.com/turnstile-private-captcha-alternative/

An example of the (scary sounding) "fingerprinting" you mention is checking whether the browser viewport is actually being rendered into pixels (as opposed to it being a "headless" machine with no actual rendering, which is a sign of a bot). These sorts of checks are harmless, and they make things like Perchance's AI plugins possible when they otherwise wouldn't be.

The modern internet is built upon bot and fraud prevention mechanisms. The economics of the internet wouldn't work at all without them. You're free to block scripts on your machine of course, but "begging website administrators to remove these scripts from their websites" is plainly naive, and wastes the time of said admins.

I'm not adding paid features to Perchance. It'll always be completely free. This means bot prevention checks are required for generators that import ad supported plugins (i.e. AI plugins). You have very specific requirements, so you should use a paid service instead of Perchance. (Though note, to get through the checkout of said paid service, Stripe will run a bot/fraud check against your browser and your IP, let alone getting your credit card number which is obviously tied directly to you. Maybe find one that accepts crypto - or even better, support open source by joining the local ML community: reddit.com/r/LocalLLaMA)

It's definitely possible, since all the code for generators on Perchance is openly available and downloadable, but currently there's unfortunately no "one-click" way to do this right now - and it still would require a bit of coding knowledge at this point.

I think I wrote a comment related to this a few months back - basically you'd need to use something like ollama or llama.cpp or tabbyAPI or Aphrodite or vLLM or TGI (....etc) to run the AI text gen model (and for image gen, ComfyUI or Forge WebUI). Unfortunately even a top-of-the-line gaming GPU like a 4090 is not enough to run 70B text gen models fully in VRAM, so it may be slow. And then you'd need swap out some code in perchance.org/ai-text-plugin and perchance.org/text-to-image-plugin so that it references your localhost API instead of Perchance's server. You'd just fork the plugins, make the changes, then swap out the imports of the ai plugin for your new copies in the gens you want to self-host.

Someone in the community with some coding experience could do the work to make this easier for non-coders, and hopefully they share it in this forum if they do. I'll likely get around to implementing something eventually, but probably won't have time in the near future.

I've just updated the dynamic import plugin so it's a bit more helpful with the error message. Looks like you're passing undefined to dynamicImport.

The error messages in Perchance are, in general, atrociously unhelpful. I really need to overhaul it so bugs like this are easier for you to find. From some fiddling with Chrome DevTools, it looks like the first instance of this type of error is occurring on this line:

dynamicImport(document.i, 'preload');

i.e. document.i is undefined when that runs.

@[email protected] You also mentioned people asking for resources button on Discord. What are the most common reasons people used the resource button? E.g. upload, plugins, templates, ...? And is it frequency-of-access that makes the current situation annoying, or is it that newbies aren't able to find plugins/templates/etc. in the first place?

Thanks! I've adjusted the wording here - let me know if you have better wording ideas or any other feedback. Also, if you find extreme differences with the same seed (like, entirely different image composition/structure), I'd love to see examples of that, since there might be ways to reduce it.

I just tested and it seems to be working for me. Could you DM me a link to a character that has this issue? You can remove all irrelevant details, of course - e.g. description, image, etc. - just make sure to test that it's still not working once you've trimmed out all those details. Note that the "character share link" feature doesn't share any chats - only the character itself.

Hi, assuming you're talking about an image generator, please DM me the generator URL and/or the words/patterns they're using to get around the blocks that are in place for this. I'll adjust the regex replacements for the text to image plugin based on that

Thank you for reporting! Sorry about that - it's fixed now.

Thank you 🫡 I will eventually get around to all your great suggestions (and the feedback from other users here) once I've got a handle on this issue and a few other important things. As always, feel free to re-ping me in comments and/or repost your most important feature requests and bug reports (once every couple of weeks or so) so I can bump them up the priority list.

Yes, sorry about this. This is priority number 1 for me right now - I've been working for the last few days on fixing this. It has turned out to be harder to fix than I anticipated. Some sort of GPU memory error due to particular driver versions or something. That said, I should be able to fix it within the next day and a half (~36 hours from the time of this comment) unless something goes terribly wrong. I'm going to upgrade the whole stack, which should fix this issue, and also give a bit of a performance boost (slightly faster text generation) as a bonus.

i have been informed that malware can be embedded within favicons

You have unfortunately been misinformed on this matter. From the perspective of web browsers, favicons are just images, and will never be executed as code. You might be thinking of web-application-specific exploits - e.g. related to vulnerable WordPress favicon plugins or something. This is not at all relevant to Perchance. Using this plugin is completely safe.

That said, I appreciate the concern!

Hmm I can't replicate this, but I did just try a quick adjustment based on a hunch, which might fix it. Can you check? If it doesn't work, can you let me know which browser + device you're using?