UI automation is necessary for accessibility
UI automation is necessary for accessibility
Posted Jul 15, 2026 17:23 UTC (Wed) by Cyberax (✭ supporter ✭, #52523)In reply to: UI automation is necessary for accessibility by NYKevin
Parent article: An update on the scraper situation
Sure, but it doesn't need to be a global state. And realistically, it's not a problem to store a couple of megabytes of data. Assuming that each client ID is 128 bits, that's around 64k clients. If each one of them provides you with even 10 cents, that's a good problem to have!
Moreover, it won't even require a lot of local storage if you use random-based sampling. This was my interview question many years ago :)
The idea is to select a random number from 0 to N and if it's equal to N, you start tracking the requests for this user. Then a standard token bucket is sufficient. You can dynamically vary N depending on the overall load.
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