alt Hacker NewsCloudflare is trying to push for that, but every time it's mentioned people complain (because they hate Cloudflare for making them wait 2s for a captcha) and nobody proposes an alternative solution. I don't think this is going to happen, unfortunately, and the internet will get silo-ed into oblivion.
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People don't hate micropayments because it's Cloudflare promoting them, it's because it truly is a shit idea, for many reasons.
People would equally reject Netflix, if Netflix fooated the idea of replacing the subscription model with pay-per-view micropayments.
> ...nobody proposes an alternative solution
Such is the human condition - some problems simply have no satisfactory solutions.
My issue with cloudflare is that if I run a VPN it randomly just locks up. Coin toss I can get through if I am routing thorough another country.
> because they hate Cloudflare for making them wait 2s for a captcha
Why does it work like that anyway? Every time I open a page on some sites, their vexing box shows up to waste my time. Five minutes later I want a different page on the same site and it does the same thing. They can't do it once and cache the result?