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Re:Anubis: Proof-of-work proxy to prevent AI crawlers by throwawayEm8UE on Thursday March 20, 2025 @10:48PM (#43431355)
Maybe there should also be a protocol to support paying a small amount of crypto (on the order of 0.01-0.1 cents per request) to bypass the PoW. The bots can still scrape it by paying, but you now price in the externality.
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Re:Anubis: Proof-of-work proxy to prevent AI crawlers by avodonosov on Thursday March 20, 2025 @11:16PM (#43431498)
Yes, I was also thinking of this.

"proof of pay" or "proof of a transaction"

An advantage of this would be not wasting electricity for the proof of work computation.

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