These prices are being set by an industry-wide bottleneck around online human verification. The cost just shot up because of LLMs. This is only a temporary rep

These prices are being set by an industry-wide bottleneck around online human verification. The cost just shot up because of LLMs. This is only a temporary reprieve for Reddit, Twitter, et.al. The LLMs are going to start simulating user agents and work around this. Well-intentioned alternative user agents like Apollo are collateral damage. The root fix is a solution to online human verification. All these web products are just trying to hang a "Humans Only" sign on the door.