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.

At best these browsers are going to have some efficient CPU implementation.

Means absolutely nothing in context to what I said, or any information contained in this article. Does not relate to anything I originally replied to.

Scrapers can send these challenges off to dedicated GPU farms or even FPGAs, which are an order of magnitude faster and more efficient.

Not what’s happening here. Be Serious.

I would prefer if you would just engage with my arguments.

I did, your arguments are bad and you’re being intellectually disingenuous.

This is very condescending.

Yeah, that’s the point. Very Astute

It is basically instantaneous on my 12 year old Keppler GPU Linux Box. It is substantially less impactful on the environment than AI tar pits and other deterrents. The Cryptography happening is something almost all browsers from the last 10 years can do natively that Scrapers have to be individually programmed to do. Making it several orders of magnitude beyond impractical for every single corporate bot to be repurposed for. Only to then be rendered moot, because it’s an open-source project that someone will just update the cryptographic algorithm for. These posts contain links to articles, if you read them you might answer some of your own questions and have more to contribute to the conversation.

Ceramic, Stnoe