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this is basically what they are doing, but instead of charging actual money they are making visitors spin the CPU ideally in a proof of work problem, which has
by cwmma 2y ago
this is basically what they are doing, but instead of charging actual money they are making visitors spin the CPU ideally in a proof of work problem, which has the same outcome from the crawlers perspective.
- woah 2y agoThis has existed for decades. The proof of CPU work is called "frontend frameworks"
- fewsats 2y agoI've talked with tons of publishers and all say the same thing: "Hey, we'd happily give these companies clean data if they just paid us instead of building these scrapers." I think there is a psychological aspect that made micropayments never work for humans but machines may be better suited for it.