You've fallen victim to propaganda, my friend.
It's only mandatory if they survive the fall...
pirateKaiser
joined 3 weeks ago
There's no fullproof way. Even if you somehow block every crawling automation, there's still puppeteering where the bot behaves just like a normal user.
As someone who works for a paywallled website, that's hardly a deterrent. If the site is important enough, they will pay for accounts and crawl until the server melts
The problem is not the functionality, it's the business model.
How do you go about finding and joining such a venture