Can we stop the "prove you're human" checks now that vision models can solve them better than some humans and standardize on a hashcash HTTP challenge/response so we can mitigate the scraping asymmetry while ditching the surveillance JS bloat? Please?
http://www.hashcash.org/
Mauve 👁💜
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2026-10-01 18:19:22 UTC
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