Re:ChatGPT won't let you type until Cloudflare reads your Re...
by tshaddox on Sunday March 29, 2026 @10:07PM
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My point is that there probably is no way in principle to distinguish between a human user utilizing automation on their own behalf in good faith (e.g. RSS readers) and bad faith automations.
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Re:ChatGPT won't let you type until Cloudflare reads your Re...
by crote on Monday March 30, 2026 @12:51AM
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That's a feature, not a bug.
A human is personally responsible for a bot acting on their behalf. If your bot behaves, nothing is going to happen. If you keep handing out your personal keys to shitty misbehaving bots, then you will personally get banned - which gives you a pretty good incentive to be a bit more discerning about the bots you use.
Re:ChatGPT won't let you type until Cloudflare reads your Re...
by 0x3f on Monday March 30, 2026 @08:11AM
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Yes, everything should just be agnostic, as long as the incentives work out it's all fine. Like if we had worked out micropayments for the web (not saying that's a good idea per se), then who cares if you're a bot or a human when you're paying a toll either way? Flipping it to be a cost rather than payment is functionally equivalent.