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Maybe you could require hashcash, so that people who wanted to do automated searches could do it at an expense comparable to the expense of a human doing a sear
by kragen 2y ago
Maybe you could require hashcash, so that people who wanted to do automated searches could do it at an expense comparable to the expense of a human doing a search manually. Or a cryptocurrency micropayment, though tooling around that is currently poor.
- supriyo-biswas 2y agoThe only issue with a hash cash is there’s no way to know whether the user’s browser is the one who computed said proof of work, or has delegated it to a different system and is simply relaying its results. At scale, you’d end up with a large botnet that receives proof of work tokens to solve for the scraping network to use.
- kragen 2y agoI don't see that as a problem; it still imposes the botnet rental cost on the spammer or whoever.