@molly0xfff I’ve got a blog post in the works about this but there’s a third option we should be considering:

Making it more expensive to download and parse by rejecting the corporate-friendly facism of minimalism and plaintext and re-embracing the creative possibilities of the multimedia web.

If a blog post was the same rough size as a YouTube video and required a scraper to understand a complex css layout and rich interactive context the scraping difficulty and the possibilities for unique, luxurious creation go through the roof in a way that cannot be replicated or co-opted by corps. And if every website was 1000x bigger, the scraping costs go up at least 1000x.

I say it’s time to discard the markdown web and for the dawn of the indie baroque.

@leon as with trying to block bots, there are tradeoffs. in your case, people with limited bandwith or low-end devices might also suffer