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TZubiri
4 months ago
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Why are anime catgirls blocking my access to the L...
As I understand it, this is Proof of Work, which is strictly not a mouse and cat situation.
account42
4 months ago
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It is because you are dealing with crawlers that already have a nontrivial cost per page, adding something relatively trivial that is still within the bounds regular users accept won't change the motivations of bad actors at all.
TZubiri
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What is the existing cost per page? as far as I know an http request and some string parsing is somewhat trivial, say 14kb of bandwidth per page?
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