I thought the main reason is because it's a lot more difficult blocking advertisements in an app.

I VPN home where I run Piholes and block all outbound DNS, DoT and port 443 to known DoH hosts.

Works like a charm.

... humans don't generally say

"Wanna grab lunch at 1,748,718,000 seconds from the Unix epoch?"

I'm totally going to start doing that now.

"This is funny."

But it's not perfect. GulfOfAmerica would have been perfect!

In no time it will be forked with the new name to make it even greater

Lower birth rates is NOT a crisis. In fact, it is the most effective SOLUTION to the ACTUAL crisis of HUMAN OVERPOPULATION which is at the root of every problem e.g. climate change, dwindling resources, increased transmission of disease, etc.

>ACTUAL crisis of HUMAN OVERPOPULATION which is at the root of every problem e.g. climate change

False. The rich disproportionately pollute. Climate change isn't a population problem, it is a resource allocation problem. If the poorest 50% of all people disappeared tomorrow, emissions would only decline by 10%[1].

1. https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2015/dec/02/worlds-r...

If my 2002 Land Rover Discovery II is vintage enough, I will gladly pay you to tinker with it, the next time you're in Oregon USA that is!

"For some, regret might be slow-brewing indecision that amounts to loss, like not having children."

Or ... having children!

The decision to block bots is not always about protecting intellectual property. A practical consideration I haven't seen mentioned is that some of these AI bots are stupidly aggressive with their requests, even ignoring robots.txt. I had to activate Cloudflare WAF and block a variety of bots to prevent my web app servers from crashing. At least they're reasonable enough to identify themselves!

Those aggressive bot....

Crawls each and every date link on my synology dsm hosted calendar without throttling.

yeah, we had a bunch of them crawling out git repositories in a very aggressive way, repeating the crawl within a few days, etc. etc. 403 to the lot of them, regardless of the bot's purpose.

Whats the deal with (Amazon) bots crawling private Gitlabs aggressively?