This is probably a dumb question, but at what point do we put a simple CAPTCHA in front of every new user that arrives at a site, then give them a cookie and start tracking requests per second from that user?
I guess its a kind of soft login required for every session?
update: you could bake it into the cookie approval dialog (joke!)
The post-AI web is already a huge mess. I'd prefer solutions that don't make it worse.
I myself browse with cookies off, sort of, most of the time, and the number of times per day that I have to click a Cloudflare checkbox or help Google classify objects from its datasets is nuts.
> The post-AI web is already a huge mess.
You mean the peri-AI web? Or is AI already done and over and no longer exerting an influence?