I can't access gnu.org, because their extreme measurements against the AI bots blocking my slightly older browser.
replyYeah, I tried to sign up for instagram, but at the fourth captcha I gave up and left. How does instagram have any users with such a hostile sign-up barrier?
replyMy profile picture is old enough to open an account on instagram
replyFun fact. There is this threads twitter clone from meta. How do I login?
replyI "log in with Instagram", where "I log in with Facebook". Guess how well data recovery works when there is literally no password set. I'm surprised these systems work at all.
> Charging money means you will also offset real humans at the same time.
replyOn completely different scales. Even if it not perfect, it is strong enough of a filter to turn a bot infestation into a mild annoyance.
That's an assumption. Depending on the incentives in play, the relative scale at which AI users and real humans are affected may well be the opposite of what you expect.
replyMetafilter and Something Awful both do this.
replyBoth sites have survived and continue to work well for their users.
A small cost does definitely work for some sites.
Is SA still a thing? I had an account since... 2007? God I'm old. I miss the days when you could have a community that you could easily search for content. Nowadays everything is a discord black hole.
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