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I'm pretty sure anyone who deploys aggressive cloudflare DDOS protection knows the impact and believes it's the lesser evil.

If there was just as effective a way to tell cheap bots from legitimate browsers without making users wait I'm pretty sure it would have been used.

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Being "pretty sure" is an opportunity and a starting off point, not a dead end. Not to forget the classic "Assumptions are the mother of all fuck ups".

Things aren't set in stone either. The most effective method to communicate over long distances used to be carrier pigeons, but only because they hadn't yet invented the telegraph.

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