It's indeed very annoying.

I've only seen 1 or 2 that know what they're doing. One's at lemmy.world ... just hovering over it is verified ...

> And don't come crying to me about how the problem you're trying to solve is "hard". I don't care: you chose it, you chose to considerably worsen the web browsing experience of millions of people globally, nobody made you.

Unfortunately, if you let all the bots in, they overwhelm your servers, and then nobody can access the website.

I assume you're offering to pay for the increased server costs?

I had some git hosting up for a while, and was serving hundreds of qps and several terabytes per month. I can only imagine want significant sites are serving.