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Great, another thing I have to block server side. Reminds me of the image leech protections that had to be in place because bandwidth was expensive. History doe
by archerx 2mo ago
Great, another thing I have to block server side. Reminds me of the image leech protections that had to be in place because bandwidth was expensive. History doesn’t repeat but rhymes as they say.
- pavlov 2mo agoMaybe AI-service-blocklist-as-a-service could be a YC company.
- paytonjjones 2mo agoBetter business model would be some sort of micropayment setup - allow humans, but make scrapers pay a hundredth of a cent for access.
- owlninja 2mo agoIs this similar? https://blog.cloudflare.com/monetization-gateway/ https://blog.cloudflare.com/monetization-gateway/
- paytonjjones 2mo agoYep. 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).