To be clear, I am not minimizing the problems of scrapers. I am merely pointing out that this strategy of proof-of-work has nasty side effects and we need something better.
These issues are not short term. PoW means you are entering into an arms race against an adversary with bottomless pockets that inherently requires a ton of useless computations in the browser.
When it comes to moving towards something based on heuristics, which is what the developer was talking about there, that is much better. But that is basically what many others are already doing (like the “I am not a robot” checkmark) and fundamentally different from the PoW that I argue against.
You can’t freely download and edit society. You can download and edit this piece of software here, because this is FOSS. You could download it now and change it, or improve it however you’d like. But, you can’t, because you’re just pretending to be concerned about issues that are made up. Or, if being generous from what I can read here, only you have encountered.
To be clear, I am not minimizing the problems of scrapers. I am merely pointing out that this strategy of proof-of-work has nasty side effects and we need something better.
These issues are not short term. PoW means you are entering into an arms race against an adversary with bottomless pockets that inherently requires a ton of useless computations in the browser.
When it comes to moving towards something based on heuristics, which is what the developer was talking about there, that is much better. But that is basically what many others are already doing (like the “I am not a robot” checkmark) and fundamentally different from the PoW that I argue against.
Go do heuristics, not PoW.
Youre more than welcome to try and implement something better.
“You criticize society yet you participate in it. Curious.”
If you think thats comparable then you’re dumber than I thought.
You can’t freely download and edit society. You can download and edit this piece of software here, because this is FOSS. You could download it now and change it, or improve it however you’d like. But, you can’t, because you’re just pretending to be concerned about issues that are made up. Or, if being generous from what I can read here, only you have encountered.