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> Malenfant says that five to ten years from now, CAPTCHA challenges likely won’t be viable at all. Instead, much of the web will have a constant, secret Turing
by diafygi 8y ago
> Malenfant says that five to ten years from now, CAPTCHA challenges likely won’t be viable at all. Instead, much of the web will have a constant, secret Turing test running in the background.
I wonder how tracking-based captchas can be compatible with privacy regulations like the GDPR. Do you have to positively opt-in to a website seeing whether or not you're a robot?
We're basically moving towards a world where the venn diagram for the web and privacy no longer intersect.
- withdrawn 8y agoI’ve already mostly stopped using the internet. I’m down to about four sites now, and even those are beginning to look like they’re in doubt. If I chart the trajectory of TV, and consider that much of what I do on the internet fills the void that TV once held, then I might completely drop the web from my list of time killing behaviors. Not impossible, since it’s pretty much a less convenient version of sitting on the couch, listlessly surfing hundreds of low quality cable channels with the remote control. And of course, even TV is reaching an invasive climax too, these days. DVR set top boxes are worse than nielsen devices. So, my spare time is mine to use as I wish, and we’ll see what I do with it...