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avinothtoday at 12:57 AM0 repliesview on HN

> RubyGems disables new user registration

> On May 16th, registration with disposable emails was disabled as well.

These kind of repeated attacks or attempts to attack by agent swarms is only going to make the experience worse for the rest of us actual humans. ReCaptcha is already annoying enough, I can’t fathom what comes next.

Unfortunately this makes a perfect justification for governments and companies to push for real ID verification.