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"I run a website where people can upload files."

This is an incredibly brave thing to do in 2026.

You put the people (Google Adsense) showing the scam adverts in prison.

None of this would work if Google Adsense didn't allow scam ads on their system. But they do, millions every day (I deal with this every day on my websites, Google don't care).

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Racketeer_Influenced_and_Corru...

To the developer, please just add this line to your prompt: "ensure it works on the 2 previous versions of MacOS".

You made me press command+w :-|

Luckily command+shift+t undoes.

You just need to make it "difficult enough". If the energy/processing costs of bypassing Cloudflare is high, then it doesn't scale up to a distributed domestic IP scrape of my million page website.

That post is shocking and probably deserves its own HackerNews discussion.

Google are removing vast amounts of pages from their search indexes, leaving only "primary sources" that AI chat can reference.

So if you have a long-tail page ("obscure part number") then the only way to show it is buying an ad for it.