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[-] explodicle@sh.itjust.works 9 points 5 days ago

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

[-] piccolo@sh.itjust.works 9 points 5 days ago

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

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

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

/s

[-] explodicle@sh.itjust.works 3 points 5 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.

this post was submitted on 13 Dec 2025

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