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Ignoring whether or not this would decimate legitimate site usage, I'm not even sure that requiring payment for access will solve the bot issue; those who are p
by mbStavola 3y ago
Ignoring whether or not this would decimate legitimate site usage, I'm not even sure that requiring payment for access will solve the bot issue; those who are pushing a lot of the terrible bot spam and scams are also in the same group as those who would use stolen credit cards.
- gdulli 3y agoI don't think those are the bots he cares about, just the read-only unauthenticated users. For the value they extract from scraping, the costs they incur, and the opportunity cost of not advertising to real people who browse anonymously. The replies of viral tweets are filled with sanctioned blue check spam now, it's apparently profitable at $8/month.