The thought is that a single user isn’t inconvenienced by a small amount of computational work to access a site, but a scraper is tarpitted into uselessness by

The thought is that a single user isn’t inconvenienced by a small amount of computational work to access a site, but a scraper is tarpitted into uselessness by it. Unfortunately this completely ignores the fact that the majority of site accesses are on battery power now.