Comment by TZubiri Comment by TZubiri 3 days ago 2 replies Copy Link View on Hacker News As I understand it, this is Proof of Work, which is strictly not a mouse and cat situation.
Copy Link account42 3 days ago Collapse Comment - It is because you are dealing with crawlers that already have a nontrivial cost per page, adding something relatively trivial that is still within the bounds regular users accept won't change the motivations of bad actors at all. Reply View | 1 reply Copy Link TZubiri 3 days ago Parent Collapse Comment - What is the existing cost per page? as far as I know an http request and some string parsing is somewhat trivial, say 14kb of bandwidth per page? Reply View | 0 replies
Copy Link TZubiri 3 days ago Parent Collapse Comment - What is the existing cost per page? as far as I know an http request and some string parsing is somewhat trivial, say 14kb of bandwidth per page? Reply View | 0 replies
It is because you are dealing with crawlers that already have a nontrivial cost per page, adding something relatively trivial that is still within the bounds regular users accept won't change the motivations of bad actors at all.