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At this point can I just pay for a certificate or something? Like for $1 give me a certificate that I can use to say "I'm not a spammer" and I can anonymously
by the-pigeon 8y ago
At this point can I just pay for a certificate or something?
Like for $1 give me a certificate that I can use to say "I'm not a spammer" and I can anonymously buy as many certificates as I want.
And then if a certificate is used by a spammer it becomes invalid. Seems like it's expensive enough to be worth using for existing spammers but let normal people pay a $1 every year or two to not have to deal with captchas.
- aussieguy1234 8y agoFingerprinting is designed to generate a unique identifier to track you. Certificates would be an even more accurate unique ID over what fingerprinting could provide
- hanniabu 8y ago> and I can anonymously buy as many certificates as I want
- acdha 8y agoDo you really think that statistically noticeable numbers of people would do that and have perfect opsec preventing those perfect unique identifiers from being linked? I mean, even software developers tend to whine about paying $5 for an app which has far more immediate rewards.
- ENGNR 8y agoEven just proof that 5c worth of crypto or something was burned would would a good alternative. Let the site/app designer work out how often it needs to happen (maybe just the first few times if they're new) to stop spam and not cost honest users much
- close04 8y agoThis seems like a very cheap way to make spam look legitimate at least for a while. It now costs me $1 more to spam until I get caught and banned. But until that point I don't have to worry about any kind of filter, I'm a legitimate user.