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by arbol 21 days ago
Proper bot operators already run long-lived sessions in order to avoid detection. So this inflicts additional financial penalities on basic bots (brute force) but not the more advanced ones, as they're already paying it.
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Not all bots are bad, and the economic incentive of playing nice in a long lived session bot is much more stronger otherwise, which is kind of the point. It is the same with humans.