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Re:hCaptcha now runs on fifteen percent of the internet by entangledqubit on Wednesday November 25, 2020 @07:33PM (#25215820)
This doesn't mix well with the ad-based compensation model.

Sadly, there still doesn't seem to be much in the way of micropayment infrastructure.

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Re:hCaptcha now runs on fifteen percent of the internet by matheusmoreira on Wednesday November 25, 2020 @09:41PM (#25216381)
That's a feature if you ask me. The whole point of scraping websites is to get the data I want while discarding noise like interface chrome and advertising directly to the garbage.

If they'd like me to pay for access, they should return HTTP 402 Payment Required instead of letting me download the page for free. Perhaps they could also rate limit the network connection to prevent denial of service. Why straight up block automated user agents though? That sucks.

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Re:hCaptcha now runs on fifteen percent of the internet by octoberfranklin on Thursday November 26, 2020 @03:05AM (#25217934)
> they should return HTTP 402 Payment Required

That's illegal.

They must first return HTTP 418 Know Your Customer Required.

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Re:hCaptcha now runs on fifteen percent of the internet by octoberfranklin on Thursday November 26, 2020 @03:02AM (#25217919)
> there still doesn't seem to be much in the way of micropayment infrastructure.

Anti Money Laundering regulation killed it: KYC doesn't scale down to micropayment levels.

If you want to fix the web, you have to roll back the AML/KYC insanity. Until that happens, the web will stay broken, because paying with attention (ads) is magically exempt from the AML/KYC insanity, whereas paying with money or anything money-equivalent (fungible and transferable) is not.

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Re:hCaptcha now runs on fifteen percent of the internet by matheusmoreira on Thursday November 26, 2020 @07:42AM (#25219500)
> the AML/KYC insanity

Just finished reading about this and I completely agree. I can't imagine having a company and being literally obligated by law to violate everything I personally believe in about privacy and freedom just to help the government be even more efficient at marginalizing people.

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