If I want you to see my webpages I’ll send you links or post them someplace relevant. That doesn’t completely stop sloperators and other scrapers but it at least slows them down. The more private pages are password protected or whatnot.
password protection means you’ll have 0 visitors. it’s better to do proof-of-work instead. which means, the visitor’s computer solves some cryptographic puzzle to prove that it has spent energy and therefore money to visit the website. that makes scraping millions or billions of websites practically too expensive to do, while if you only visit a single website, it’s still reasonably cheap to do.
The password pages still have visitors. They just have to know the password.
https://www.ecosia.org/search?q=The+Small+Website+Discoverability+Crisis
This article is the top response. What crisis?
The average user does not have the exact title of the web page.
Yep. Different server instances.
