FWIW I don’t disagree with anything you’re saying but you’re going leaps and bounds beyond your original statement, which is what prompted my original comment.

FWIW I don’t disagree with anything you’re saying but you’re going leaps and bounds beyond your original statement, which is what prompted my original comment. “[link to a post discussing replacing CAPTCHAs with PATs] is the greatest threat to user freedom we’ve ever seen” loses potential allies because the evidence doesn’t back up the statement. IMO the actual threat is the centralisation of power on the internet. PATs are simply a manifestation of that power. Lots of people in this thread use Cloudflare and enjoy their products so any argument relying on “Cloudflare are evil” will likely also fall flat. “Centralised power is inherently/inevitably evil”… now we’re cooking with gas. But it’s still an uphill struggle losing people all the way.