alt Hacker NewsIt is time for micropayments integrated in the browser. Pay 5 cents to access each bug report. Not fun, it shouldn't be like this, but better than not having a bugtracker at all.
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and do you happen to know a zero friction payment system that works internationally like the Internet itself does? because I promise you that unless you already have a captive audience, even a minuscule amount of friction to access your service will cost you an overwhelming percentage of organic human visitors.
I think it's gonna kill off the internet not just for bots but to whole class of lower income countries, especially for younger learners
The question is what exactly are you trying to achieve. Do you want to prevent them from gathering data or do you want to save resources?
If it is the latter, then, perhaps, some p2p (torrent-like) content delivery system could help.
Perhaps the biggest problem is 5 cents or less isn't enough to cover minimum transaction fees.
Cloudflare is working exactly on enabling that, like it or not.
How many pages does the average software developer visit everyday? 1.000? Price at 0.001 per load and it’ll be completely impractical for crawlers but super cheap for the average connected human on earth.
0.05 cents even. The beautiful thing is, minuscule amounts of micropayments are already enough to fix the incentives