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.
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)