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I wonder if they could just make a new browser standard which lets the server put the browser into a mode where the browser itself ensures there’s a live human
by Razengan 7y ago
I wonder if they could just make a new browser standard which lets the server put the browser into a mode where the browser itself ensures there’s a live human interacting with the page/app, like using the webcam + OS facial recognition to ensure the server that it’s not a bot.
- fluxsauce 7y agoThis makes my skin crawl. I understand the intent, but this is morally wrong on many different levels. I hate credential stuffing and malicious activity as much as the next person, but I would never sacrifice user privacy like that. Also, you can spoof a webcam (but that's not the real problem).
- Razengan 7y agoIt would be better than the unpaid labor we have to do for Captcha.
- realusername 7y agoCaptcha don't stop bots anymore, they only stop humans. I don't know why websites are still using those.
- missblit 7y agoUnless it was closed source / DRM-y, the scraper developer would just compiler their browser from source and fake the detection code. Scrapers that know what they're doing could implement this in a day. There are already easier ways to detect scrapers that don't know what they're doing. And that's just the start of a long cat & mouse game that'd inevitably end up even more user-hostile and unaccessible than requiring a webcam to browse a website.