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Re:Analysis of 200M tweets discussing coronavirus suggests 4... by vntok on Saturday May 30, 2020 @12:11PM (#23362115)
Easy: solve 5 captchas (all known captchas of course, not 2 knowns and 3 unknowns) a day for 2 days and you get authorized again. Next violation, solve 5 captchas per day for a week. Next one, 5 per day for a month.
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Re:Analysis of 200M tweets discussing coronavirus suggests 4... by andarleen on Saturday May 30, 2020 @12:37PM (#23362363)
That could work indeed. Annoying but necessary. Tho what does one do about real bots - people in spam farms that would manually login, post and logout.
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