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They should just charge a tiny fee, or return Error 402 Payment Required.
Better yet, return bogus pages created by ai to poison the data.
Instead of CAPTCHAs?
Oh boy I can't see this going wrong at all!
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Yeah that's exactly what Cloudflare proposed a while back if I'm not mistaken. Not sure if they ever implemented that feature.