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0 pointsreaperducer10mo ago0 comments

So is the solution to stymying bots to just add a page load delay of a second or two? Enough that people won't care, but it doesn't scale for bots?

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jsheard10mo ago

Just adding a delay wouldn't achieve anything because bots can just do something else while they wait, whereas PoW requires them to actively spend their finite resources before they can continue doing whatever they want to do.

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0 pointsreaperducer10mo ago0 comments

So is the solution to stymying bots to just add a page load delay of a second or two? Enough that people won't care, but it doesn't scale for bots?

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jsheard10mo ago

Just adding a delay wouldn't achieve anything because bots can just do something else while they wait, whereas PoW requires them to actively spend their finite resources before they can continue doing whatever they want to do.

j / k navigate · click thread line to collapse