> Yeah, free API is being abused badly right now by bot scammers & opinion manipulators. There’s no verification process or cost, so easy to spin up 100k bots to do bad things.
>Just ~$100/month for API access with ID verification will clean things up greatly.
If eliminating spam bots is the goal, a fairly nominal fee would likely suffice. $50/yr? That would be $5 million for the 100K spam bots.
> Yeah, free API is being abused badly right now by bot scammers & opinion manipulators. There’s no verification process or cost, so easy to spin up 100k bots to do bad things.
>Just ~$100/month for API access with ID verification will clean things up greatly.
If eliminating spam bots is the goal, a fairly nominal fee would likely suffice. $50/yr? That would be $5 million for the 100K spam bots.
$1200 per year or more is punitive