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Implementing a bot to do registration is not a "copy as curl " click away anymore, and creating millions of accounts maybe become computationally expensive.

This is not much, but it could deter some low effort adversaries.

I see that, but the adversary wasn’t a low effort one, and didn’t need millions of accounts.

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