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That's the point. An individual user doesn't lose sleep over using a full browser, that's exactly how they use the web anyway, but for an LLM scraper or similar, this greatly increases costs on their end and partially thereby rebalances the power/cost imbalance, and at the very least, encourages innovations to make the scrapers externalise costs less by not rescraping things over and over again just because you're too lazy, and the weight of doing so is born by somebody else, not you. It's an incentive correction for the commons.



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