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> WEI is really about denying the user full control of their own device. If you give people full control of their devices, you will have bots. Do you believe el
by ori_b 3y ago
> WEI is really about denying the user full control of their own device. If you give people full control of their devices, you will have bots. Do you believe eliminating bots is more important than general purpose computing?
Worse than that -- unless you disallow any sort of scripting and accessibility hooks, WEI doesn't prevent malicious requests. It just forces you to script your system via autohotkey or its equivalent.
- Buttons840 3y agoYep. And what will the solution to that be? People used browser APIs and some other people thought to take that away. When some people use autohotkey, what will the other people think about doing?
- tjpnz 3y agoThat's by design given how many ads for scams and malware Google serves.