alt Hacker NewsIt feels like there is fundamentally missing infrastructure here that is needed to make these problems go away.
Basically bots need to be (somehow) paying for the traffic they create, or prevented from creating it, or told to go away and then fined if they violate the request. No idea how to do these or even at what level in the stack they should happen, but they need to happen eventually somehow.
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john_strinlai • today at 8:19 PM
we've been working on basically the same problem in the email space for a few decades (legit email vs. mass spam). its a very hard (i think impossible) problem.
Every website I visit could get a fraction of a cent in my Cloudflare Wallet. A human browsing incurs a few dollars a month. Plus, any website I access in this way decides not to show me ads either and just charges me the cost of serving the data plus a nominal profit margin.
Disclosure: I am a shareholder and would love for them to solve the AI bot problem and the ad problem like this.