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Thank you @corbet and all at @LWN for continuing the work of providing the excellent #LWN.

The "active defenses" against torrents of antisocial web scraping bots, has bad effects on users. They tend to be "if you don't allow JavaScript and cookies, you can't visit the site" even if the site itself works fine without.

I don't have a better defense to offer, but it's really closing off huge portions of the web that would otherwise be fine for secure browsers.

It sucks. Sorry, and thank you.