Comment by fc417fc802

> And then regular users: who now can't really browse your site.

That's entirely up to how the site operator configures the PoW challenge.

> anyone with even a moderate amount of funding in the AI space, who aren't even slightly slowed down

Do you have any evidence that it is the large well funded AI companies DoSing sites by (for example) scraping absurd numbers of permutations of cgit url parameters?

Even if it is (which I doubt), if all this accomplishes is getting them to spend 10 minutes optimizing their bots to not do that it will be a major win.