I mean other than making surfing the web slow as molasses.

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[–] 4 points 27 minutes ago

It exists to identify if whoever is visiting is a human or a bot.

Why?

Because if it's a bit it's likely automated and there's a variety of reasons to not want automated requests to come through. Some of them are:

  • because lots of "hackers" try to hack systems by automatically trying to find security vulnerabilities in a server, service etc.
  • because automated requests can be done faster, so they can happen more commonly, and they use resources, and if there's too many this genuinely affects server performance budget
  • bunch more reasons
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  • [–] 1 point 14 minutes ago*

    So don’t use it

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  • [–] 0 points 30 minutes ago

    Pretty fare clouds

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