Please don’t discuss detailed strategies here. If you can edit your post, that would be great
As noted before, these changes are designed to make it more difficult and the opportunity cost higher. No one here as said they’re foolproof.
It’s difficult to say, but as you and others acknowledge, it’s certainly happening so I think it’s safe to assume that it is creating at least some problems.
Agreed, but this is designed to make it more difficult to find locations on iNat - we don’t thave control over other platforms. I think of it like a Club on a car, or as Ken-ichi has said a lock on a door. It doesn’t make things impossible, but it makes it more difficult and less likely for someone to use iNat for nefarioius purposes.