I wonder how that could be accomplished. Maybe they'll build a brain interface to replace the "I'm not a robot" captchas/add a TPM chip to the brain.
And then the spammers will start selling tools to fake the responses. Or pay Filipinos a few cents a month to have the chip implanted to their brains...
> Or pay Filipinos a few cents a month to have the chip implanted to their brains...
That's the problem with blocking bots as opposed to malicious behavior. Bot blocking is actually trivial and very cheap to bypass as long as you can buy slave-like labor for peanuts.
Ideally you'd want to block malicious behavior (when it comes to SEO spam, downrank anything for-profit such as ads, analytics, affiliate links, etc) instead to remove the incentives for spamming, regardless of whether it's a bot or human.
In this case the only problem is that this search engine gives away resources (search queries) for free and then complains that people (in this case spammers) are taking it. It's not really a spam problem - they'd complain equally well if they had some legitimate user that happened to need tons of search queries to achieve their task.
The only solution here is to start charging for stuff that costs money, and then it doesn't really matter who is on the other side, as long as they pay the bill.
It's a principal-agent problem. Websites want to be paid for their content, rent ad space, advertisers want users to see ads, users want to find content.
The agent in the middle fucking over all three principals is hmm. Metaälphabetic, let's say.
Well, we can do it with the roads, I'm pretty sure if the incentives are right we can come up with a way to do it online. As long as we have not passed the Turing test ;)
The current web seems to favor machines talking to machines and that is definitely not how it was intended.
And then the spammers will start selling tools to fake the responses. Or pay Filipinos a few cents a month to have the chip implanted to their brains...