Sounds like it'll also cost you much more, though.

True, but if you are doing AI, money is mostly free.

Eh, we'll revert to the mean at some point. Taking a loss on each unit and making up for it in volume won't scale forever.

Unless headless browsers become cheap enough for that base cost to go to effectively zero too, of course, but I trust web bloat to continue pushing out that intersection point for a bit more.

It doesn't really matter since a lot are just hobby projects that can run in the background.

Yes, it's essentially a cat and mouse game, with the ultimate conclusion that the game itself is destroyed - in the current case, the open internet.

Or maybe just behave?

Or maybe stop telling others what to do?