| ▲ | paytonjjones 2 hours ago |
| Better business model would be some sort of micropayment setup - allow humans, but make scrapers pay a hundredth of a cent for access. |
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| ▲ | owlninja 2 hours ago | parent [-] |
| Is this similar? https://blog.cloudflare.com/monetization-gateway/ |
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| ▲ | paytonjjones an hour ago | parent [-] | | Yep. It will be interesting to see if things move that way or not. AI scraping might get annoying but a lot of sites (eg e-commerce) have obvious incentives to allow AIs to scrape them for free (or even pay AI companies to prioritize them, like they already do with Google). |
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