Comment by TZubiri 3 days ago As I understand it, this is Proof of Work, which is strictly not a mouse and cat situation. 2 comments TZubiri Reply account42 2 days ago 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. TZubiri 2 days ago 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?
account42 2 days ago 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. TZubiri 2 days ago 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?
TZubiri 2 days ago 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?
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.
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?