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[–] MonkderVierte@lemmy.zip 49 points 5 days ago* (last edited 5 days ago) (6 children)

Just remeber that the captcha flood is because AI companies do rogue scraping. Be nice especially to little private sites.

[–] explodicle@sh.itjust.works 9 points 5 days ago (4 children)

They should just charge a tiny fee, or return Error 402 Payment Required.

[–] piccolo@sh.itjust.works 9 points 4 days ago (3 children)

Better yet, return bogus pages created by ai to poison the data.

[–] explodicle@sh.itjust.works 3 points 4 days ago

Instead of CAPTCHAs?

[–] Redex68@lemmy.world 1 points 4 days ago

Yeah that's exactly what Cloudflare proposed a while back if I'm not mistaken. Not sure if they ever implemented that feature.

[–] DeltaWingDragon@sh.itjust.works 1 points 3 days ago

Oh boy I can't see this going wrong at all!

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