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You can do anything at Zombocom (sopuli.xyz)

submitted 11 months ago by Gork@sopuli.xyz to c/programmer_humor@programming.dev

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[–] explodicle@sh.itjust.works 10 points 11 months ago (4 children)

They should just charge a tiny fee, or return Error 402 Payment Required.

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[–] piccolo@sh.itjust.works 9 points 11 months ago (3 children)

Better yet, return bogus pages created by ai to poison the data.

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[–] explodicle@sh.itjust.works 3 points 11 months ago

Instead of CAPTCHAs?

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[–] DeltaWingDragon@sh.itjust.works 1 point 10 months ago

Oh boy I can't see this going wrong at all!

/s

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[–] Redex68@lemmy.world 1 point 10 months ago

Yeah that's exactly what Cloudflare proposed a while back if I'm not mistaken. Not sure if they ever implemented that feature.

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