the battle against scraping is pyrrhic

whenever you place an expensive web page in front of a cheap resource meant to be public, you're not making yourself any favors, unless you enjoy shooting yourself in the feet. it's like blowing up an expensive piece of equipment to protect a fuse

captchas don't require javascript. only some current implementations do, and they do so not because it's needed, but because they wish to normalize and impose poor security and freedom practices

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