[microtonal]

But that will be a hassle for human visitors as well. A web doing proof-of-work to browse, will be a disaster for phones with their limited batteries, etc.

[odo1242]

To be specific, it would be more of a hassle for human visitors than for the AI companies with infinite money and specialized browsers.

[wolttam]

The idea would be that AI companies would still be forced to do this proof of work. Anubis proved the idea

[odo1242]

I don’t think Anubis proves the idea much though. I feel the main reason it’s worked is that AI companies haven’t yet tried to bypass it.

And AI companies still scrape Anubis protected websites, it just forces them to not DDOS the website