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I'd really like this, since it wouldn't impact my scraping stuff. I like to scrape websites and make alternative, personalized frontends for them. Captchas are
by sznio 1y ago
I'd really like this, since it wouldn't impact my scraping stuff.
I like to scrape websites and make alternative, personalized frontends for them. Captchas are really painful for me. Proof of work would be painful for a massive scraping operation, but I wouldn't have an issue with spending some CPU time to get the latest posts from a site which doesn't have an RSS feed or an API.
- diggan 1y agoYeah, to me PoW makes a lot of sense in this way too. Captchas are hard for (some) people to solve, and very annoying to fill out, but easy for vision-enabled LLMs to solve (or even use 3rd party services where you pay for N/solves, available for every major captcha service). PoW instead are hard to deal with in a distributed/spammy design, but very easy for any user to just sit and wait a second or two. And all personal scraping tooling just keeps working, just slightly slower. Sounds like an OK solution to a shitty problem that has a bunch of other shitty solutions.