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Hizonner 6 hours ago

... You... think... it would be a good thing.

Don't you...

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IshKebab 5 hours ago | parent [-]

I do. It has downsides of course, but what's the alternative at this point?

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Hizonner 3 hours ago | parent | next [-]

Depends on your specific problem. Usually redesign your system not to need to care if the other end is a bot or not.

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IshKebab 2 hours ago | parent [-]

How though? Can you also avoid DDoS simply by designing your system to not care if the requester is a bot or not.

Let's say I'm running https://grep.app/ for example. AI bots start heavily using it, costing me a ton of money. How would you magically design this so it doesn't matter if the end bots are using it?

	▲	Hizonner 2 hours ago \| parent [-]
		Rate limit individual clients.

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intended 4 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

I suspect that the HN crowd is somehow insulated from the river of crap and fraud that is the internet experience for a majority of the population.