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Youtube does use proof of work to protect against bots. Not really effective, youtube-dl for example just runs the scripts in order to generate the proofs requ

Youtube does use proof of work to protect against bots. Not really effective, youtube-dl for example just runs the scripts in order to generate the proofs required.

gruez 4y ago
AFAIK those scripts are more to prove that the client has a functioning javascript environment rather than proving that they can compute 5s of computation or whatever.
arcbyte 4y ago
It protects against mass bots but not individual user agent bots which I think is desirable.