@leah I see a future where many sites go password-protected...

@leah I see a future where many sites go password-protected with a simple signup process that includes agreeing that you are not a bot.

Like 29 July at 21:43 | Wall-to-wall | Open on mastodon.social

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Sebastian Lauwers

@ZippyWonderdust @leah If they choose to ignore robots.txt, what makes you think they’ll care any more about a pinkie promise about not being a bot?

29 July at 22:58 | Open on mastodon.online

Zippy Wonderdust

@teotwaki @leah It’s not the pinkie promise; it’s the captcha before it.

29 July at 23:10 | Open on mastodon.social

Sebastian Lauwers

@ZippyWonderdust @leah Bots have a higher accuracy solving captchas than humans.

Captchas are effectively a great way to ensure the only people you’re locking out are _actual people_.

http://arxiv.org/pdf/2307.12108

30 July at 6:18 | Open on mastodon.online

Zippy Wonderdust

@leah @teotwaki Which, on second thought, leads me to revise my prediction to say that I see a dramatic increase in the deployment of non-signup captchas.

29 July at 23:18 | Open on mastodon.social

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