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This will cost you time and most likely money. And that's stopping a lot of attackers. And if you don't stop them, you at least slowed them down big time. This

This will cost you time and most likely money. And that's stopping a lot of attackers. And if you don't stop them, you at least slowed them down big time. This could also be enough to make the attack useless.

didntcheck 3y ago
And in addition to the implicit proof-of-resources of forcing attackers to run a bunch of Chrome slaves, there' are also explicit POW/S challenges in the code, according to the article. It's quite an old idea [1], to add a cost which is trivial for users but a significant overhead for spammers [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hashcash https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hashcash