Maybe I'm missing something, but why do people expect PoW to be effective against companies who's whole existence revolves around acquiring more compute?
I was under the impression that the bad crawlers exist because it's cheaper to reload the data all the time than to cache it somewhere. If this changes the cost balance, those companies might decide to download only once instead of over and over again, which would probably be satisfactory to everyone.
xmcqdpt2|11 months ago