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The website or service owners. If they can't afford it they should be out of business and do something else. The web is big enough for both humans and bots.

• shadowgovt 3y ago
  No thank you. I prefer to live by the code "Every request is a two way conversation. The client may accept, and the server may choose to emit." Just because I emit to other clients does not obligate me to emit to yours, any more than my emission of ads obligates you to accept and render them (but if you don't, or if you choose to ignore my CAPTCHAs, I may choose not to emit to you).
  • baydarr 3y ago
    That's fighting a losing battle. Clients find their way around any restriction, which by itself risks your service or website losing ground and being overtaken by the alternatives.
    • shadowgovt 3y ago
      Yes, it's all measure countermeasure. But you'll note that the most successful sites out there have bot protection and actively invest in it. I'm not concerned about the being overtaken narrative; My concern is the other scenario, where after the bots are done consuming and exfiltrating my data, I have no bandwidth to serve humans and my data is being vended from other sources now anyway. It's also not really that much of a losing battle. Cloudflare will fight the battle for me quite well for free, and even better for a pittance.