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It's definitely more than enough to stop me as a human wanting to visit the site, so yeah.

In that case a better solution would be to take the site down altogether.

Take down the site entirely because a couple humans get into a fit about it?

The site's down entirely anyway. The silly "proof of work" finishes only to tell me the site is down.

What a waste of time.

I'm just saying, making visitors wait at least a minute while making their device turn red hot is going to stop 99,9% of your visitors. So at that point what's the point in trying to serve the content?

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