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UK here and I was unemployed/irregularly employed back around 2012-2014. The requirement was like 10 applications a week.
I used a web plugin that automated it. Just one click applies. You also need to log each thing you do to search for a job. It is trivial to lie. Honestly the system is so awful I think it actually makes it harder to find a job than having zero requirements beyond being unemployed. Not like it's enough money to live off anyway, it would comfortably cover food and water, but that is all.
Then they made me work full time at Argos (retail) to continue getting welfare payments which works out to less than a quarter of minimum wage.
I want a special place in hell for people who made these laws and/or cheering on them...
My little protest was that I would occasionally move items in their stock room at random so it didn't match the database.
Now its iirc 5 hours of jobhunting and applying every single day? You exhaust every opening within 50 miles in the first week. Though less so these days because every job demands you spend 90 minutes filling out a survey no one will look at.