Comment by makeitdouble
1 year ago
> somebody using your website in a way you don't like?
This usually includes people making a near-realtime updated perfect copy of your site and serving that copy for either scam or middle-manning transactions or straight fraud.
Having a clear category of "good bots" from either a verified or accepted companies would help for these cases. Cloudflare has such a system I think, but then a new search engine would have to go to each and every platform provider to make deals and that also sounds impossible.
I'd settle for some kind of "proof of investment" in a bot-identity, so that I know blocking that identity is impactful, and it's not just one of a billion tiny throwaways.
In other words, knowing who someone is isn't strictly necessary, provided they have "skin the game" to encourage proper behavior.