If people don’t want to spend the money serving the requests, then their own servers are misconfigured because responding is optional.

It sure is, now the problems i'd like to respond to legitimate users, I dont care for bots, if theres idle resources why not.

Care to share how I can make that happen given scrapers are hellbent on ignoring any rules / agreements on how to conduct themselves?

So, that is a no on the fifty?

When AI can now register and break captures on your site to login, how do I compete with this arms race of defeating my protection from AI ?