Proof of Work is a terrible solution because it assumes computational costs are significant expense for scrapers compared to proxy costs. It’ll never come close to costing the same as residential proxies and meanwhile every smartphone user will be complaining about your website draining their battery.
You can do something like only challenge data data center IPs but you’ll have to do better than Proof-of-Work. Canvas fingerprinting would work.
Proof of Work is a terrible solution because it assumes computational costs are significant expense for scrapers compared to proxy costs. It’ll never come close to costing the same as residential proxies and meanwhile every smartphone user will be complaining about your website draining their battery.
You can do something like only challenge data data center IPs but you’ll have to do better than Proof-of-Work. Canvas fingerprinting would work.