The future will just be every web session gets tied to a real ID and if the service detects you as a bot you just get blocked by ID.

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wraptile 3 days ago | parent | next [-]

> The future will just be every web session gets tied to a real ID

This seems like an awful future. We already had this in form of limited ipv4 addresses wher each IP is basically an identity. People started buying up ip addresses and selling them as proxies. So any other form of ID would suffer the same fate unless enforced at government level.

Worst case scenario we have 10,000 people sitting in front of the screens clicking page links because hiring someone to use their "government id" to mindlessly browse the web is the only way to get data of the public web. That's not the future we should want.

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xnx 3 days ago | parent | prev [-]

I definitely agree logins will be required for many more sites, but how would the site be able to distinguish humans from bots controlling the browser? Captcha is almost obsolete. ARC AGI is too cumbersome for verifying every time.

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Gigachad 3 days ago | parent [-]

Small scale usage at the same level as a normal person would probably go under the radar, but if you try scraping, running multiple accounts or posting any more than you would a normal user it’ll be picked up once they can link all actions to a real person.

If you are just asking Siri to load a page for you, that probably gets tolerated. Maybe very sensitive sites will go verified mobile platform only and Apple/Google will provide some kind of AI free compute environment like how they can block screen recording or custom roms today.

Yes it is 100% the death of the free and open computing environment. But captchas are no longer going to be sufficient. It seems realistic to block bots if you are willing to fully lock down everything.

	▲	xnx 3 days ago \| parent [-]
		The next frontier is entire fake personas to login and scrape sites ... which is why government/real-world verification will be required soon.