> He wants to provide a free service, which he is not obligated to do and costs money for him to do, for individuals to check their email.
Not a good choice, why not make this a hashed db that could be distributed freely? Why are bots meant to be excluded? This is bad UX, I'd want to check my emails periodically in the background, but this "anti-bot" measure is meant to make me unable to do so and then demand payment. So this is openly a fight.
> are honestly worth nothing against a potential solution for a real, pressing issue like spam requests and bots
That is not an issue for me at all. Ok, let's face it - maybe I'm just on the other side. For me scrapers are very useful because they reduce the price needed to access the data as they introduce competition. For example price comparison sites are very useful.
Not a good choice, why not make this a hashed db that could be distributed freely? Why are bots meant to be excluded? This is bad UX, I'd want to check my emails periodically in the background, but this "anti-bot" measure is meant to make me unable to do so and then demand payment. So this is openly a fight.
> are honestly worth nothing against a potential solution for a real, pressing issue like spam requests and bots
That is not an issue for me at all. Ok, let's face it - maybe I'm just on the other side. For me scrapers are very useful because they reduce the price needed to access the data as they introduce competition. For example price comparison sites are very useful.