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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: 0.276s | 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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pjc50 ◴[23 Oct 25 15:46 UTC] No.45683209[source]▶
Mobile carriers certainly manage to bill per MB. But I don't think people would like their rates.

People forget that a lot of the information pre-web was somewhat pricey, and especially anything routed through a telco. The web drove prices to zero, which has had some bad effects and many very good ones.

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1. 1970-01-01 ◴[23 Oct 25 19:51 UTC] No.45686203[source]▶
I was thinking about charging per TCP handshake, or even closing their connection if the user is exceeding the typical throughput a human would need to use the site's service. Dystopian, but effective.