The one mentioned in the article was made because LLM scrapers DDOSed a person’s server. If it’s unusable for everyone, making everyone wait a bit to solve the issue is a clear improvement.
> it also doesn’t matter whose fault it is
People will always blame someone and have the uncanny talent to blame the wrong party. With cookie popups they blame the EU instead of the websites literally selling them out, here they’ll probably turn around and blame the website operators for defending themselves. For corporations running not just the scrapers but also the social networks it’s easy to algorithmically control the narrative.
>With cookie popups they blame the EU instead of the websites literally selling them out
EU created the flawed legislation, EU carved the loopholes, EU implementation and enforcement sucked, sites took the most obvious and predictable road. So who is to blame for the worse experience?
> it also doesn’t matter whose fault it is
People will always blame someone and have the uncanny talent to blame the wrong party. With cookie popups they blame the EU instead of the websites literally selling them out, here they’ll probably turn around and blame the website operators for defending themselves. For corporations running not just the scrapers but also the social networks it’s easy to algorithmically control the narrative.