They can be tracked back one by one but if you have any amount of traffic it's a constant game of cat and mouse.
You can block entire ASNs until they start using residential proxies provided by less ethical companies. Then you end up blocking all of France or destroying user experience by enforcing a captcha on everyone.
The type of request is not relevant. It's the cost of the request that's an issue. We have long ago stopped serving html documents that are static and can be cached. Tons of requests can trigger complex searches or computations which are expensive server side. This type of behavior basically ruins the internet and pushes everything into closed gardens and behind logins.
Be the change you want to see!
Anyway those are probably the lowest effort content which is why you see it most. Over time though the other forms will come. Most of Reddits front-page is memes and news for the same reason.
And they had arms
I mean in addition to all that even if they didn't scan your id of you pay with anything but cash then the credit card company or bank knows and can be made to give up that info pretty easily.
Not that I disagree but how is tiktok doing it?
People more readily appreciate things that obviously directly affect them.
I think a good comparison is Bell Labs and AT&T. A lot of good work was done by Bell Labs but it was mostly enabled by AT&Ts monopoly.
Court room stenographer
It really comes down to if you are trying to use newer hardware or not. Debian based systems usually run fine out of the box on older systems.
For newer hardware your going to want new drivers and kernel versions which you get with a rolling release distro.
They are definitely AB testing things like rejecting ad blockers.
So... Just another Tuesday for consulting then?