[ajkjk]

It feels like there is fundamentally missing infrastructure here that is needed to make these problems go away.

Basically bots need to be (somehow) paying for the traffic they create, or prevented from creating it, or told to go away and then fined if they violate the request. No idea how to do these or even at what level in the stack they should happen, but they need to happen eventually somehow.

[polio]

Every website I visit could get a fraction of a cent in my Cloudflare Wallet. A human browsing incurs a few dollars a month. Plus, any website I access in this way decides not to show me ads either and just charges me the cost of serving the data plus a nominal profit margin.

Disclosure: I am a shareholder and would love for them to solve the AI bot problem and the ad problem like this.

[wredcoll]

Maybe we'll all eat our words and cryptocurrencies will actually become useful for something.

[weird-eye-issue]

This does not require cryptocurrency

[john_strinlai]

we've been working on basically the same problem in the email space for a few decades (legit email vs. mass spam). its a very hard (i think impossible) problem.

[ajkjk]

Well, it is technologically not that hard to imagine a solution---the problem is social, getting everyone to agree on how to do it, figure out the policy around it, etc. And the situation is getting so bad that maybe it is time for someone (maybe someone reading this thread) to figure it out.

[yuye]

The same goes for telephony.

I reject all phone calls by default, unless I'm expecting a call.