I just thought that having a client side proof-of-work (or even only a delay) bound to the IP might deter the AI companies to choose to behave instead (because single-visit-per-IP crawlers get too expensive/slow and you can just block normal abusive crawlers). But they already have mind-blowing computing and money ressources and only want your data.
But if there was a simple-to-use integrated solution and every single webpage used this approach?
Solution was invented long ago. It’s called a captcha.
A little bother for legitimate users, but a good captcha is still hard to bypass even using AI.
And I think for the final user standpoint I prefer to lose 5 seconds in a captcha, than the browser running an unsolicited heavy crypto challenge on my end.
For years, we’ve written that CAPTCHAs drive us crazy. Humans give up on CAPTCHA puzzles approximately 15% of the time and, maddeningly, CAPTCHAs are significantly easier for bots to solve than they are for humans.
I just thought that having a client side proof-of-work (or even only a delay) bound to the IP might deter the AI companies to choose to behave instead (because single-visit-per-IP crawlers get too expensive/slow and you can just block normal abusive crawlers). But they already have mind-blowing computing and money ressources and only want your data.
But if there was a simple-to-use integrated solution and every single webpage used this approach?
Solution was invented long ago. It’s called a captcha.
A little bother for legitimate users, but a good captcha is still hard to bypass even using AI.
And I think for the final user standpoint I prefer to lose 5 seconds in a captcha, than the browser running an unsolicited heavy crypto challenge on my end.
https://blog.cloudflare.com/turnstile-ga/
I hate captchas.