The goal isn't to eliminate scrapers, its to prevent a distributed scraping network from requesting 10000 pages a second each from 10000 different websites.
replyYes, I also strongly suspect that this is only going to move more parts of scrapers onto consumer devices. The egress proxies are already there, why not use a little bit of the compute as well?
replyWhen you force a low end device to burn CPU or fill ram constantly, the owner throws it out and buys a new one.
replyHaha, no. The average tech illiterate person tolerates a LOT when it comes to bad performance on low end devices.
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