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We need to start doing web blocking for non-technical reasons

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57 points birdculture | 1 comments | 23 Oct 25 13:54 UTC | HN request time: 0.209s | source
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1970-01-01 ◴[23 Oct 25 15:36 UTC] No.45683083[source]▶
Blocking bots would solve 98% of the problem. We need something that does just that and only that. Once traffic becomes natural again, we can rethink the abuse problem. Charging per click or even per MB sent is an excellent idea that nobody will ever support. I wonder if that is even technically possible.
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1. panstromek ◴[23 Oct 25 17:19 UTC] No.45684384[source]▶
I don't know, I run a social media platform for learning and bots are almost never a problem apart from occasional bandwidth spike. Most abuse comes from people, and we've definitely applied the principles from the article, because other way we would just get overmhelmed.