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> I can do that with Firefox, Chrome, Brave or any other browser as well without being forced to create an account.

Oh I use Chrome too, I was under the impression that you have to sign into Google to sync bookmarks, but I guess your point is the login/account creation steps come afterwards?

Why can't the crawler problem be stopped by something like CAPTCHA or Cloudflare Turnstile?

is there any reason why can't GitHub put their code search behind something like Cloudflare Turnstile? if HaveIBeenPwned can do this, why not GitHub? https://www.troyhunt.com/fighting-api-bots-with-cloudflares-...

I understand why you feel this way, but this seems to be the trend for all the latest generation of "polished" software and I think they do this so they can retain users. (Another example that comes to mind is Warp, the terminal written in Rust.)

To be fair, as an Arc user, by logging in, I can keep my tabs synced perfectly across my personal and work laptops, which is worth it for me.

Thank you for the reply, good to know!

Relatedly, I have seen the graph showing the dip in SO traffic by ~30% if I'm not wrong (and the corresponding hot takes that attribute that to the rise of LLMs).

I know most people are pessimistic that LLMs will lead to SO and the web in general to be overrun by hallucinated content and AI-training-on-AI-ouroboros, but I wonder if it might instead allow for curious people to query an endlessly patient AI assistant about exactly this kind of information. (A custom GPT perhaps?)

To those arguing that GitHub needs to do this because search is resource intensive, why can't GitHub put their code search behind something like Cloudflare Turnstile?

See e.g. Troy Hunt doing this for HaveIBeenPwned: https://www.troyhunt.com/fighting-api-bots-with-cloudflares-...

I have had my own issues with Cloudflare Turnstile (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38412057), but in principle, I don't see why can't this be done

I’m new to HN, could I check how does this report/vouching thing work?

If someone is new and their comments get reported (because people disagree? or must there be a violation of the site guidelines), then the comment would be marked as dead and thus hidden?

Who can vouch for these users then? Is there an upvote/downvote mechanism too that’s not visible to me because I’m a new user?

I agree that the author could’ve done more to make the case for the other side. Where I have some firsthand knowledge, I find eg his suggestion that Binance and FTX divided up markets based on US geopolitical affiliation implausible and unconvincing.

Nonetheless, it’s fair to wonder if crypto has meaningfully lived up to any of its promises and why it has been hard to point to examples of value creation in crypto in a way that would make sense to an average person

Have you tested the scenario I described, ie iOS + mobile data? I wonder if there are other variables too eg the country I am in etc