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You'll have to solve fewer captchas. You'll see less spam in website comments. Fewer websites will be behind a login wall.

• autoexec 3y ago
  > You'll see less spam in website comments. The "give up your freedom to prevent crime" argument isn't new or compelling. I'd rather keep what little privacy I have and put up with spammers. As for captchas and logins, I'm not sure that'll change much. Websites still want to spam us so they'll keep asking for our email addresses, and companies still have AI to train so they still have to force us to identify buses and crosswalks. I also don't care for the idea of participating in a protection racket. "Just give us all your data and we'll stop annoying you by demanding it" isn't much better than "just pay us and we'll stop trashing your property"
• hightrix 3y ago
  > You'll have to solve fewer captchas. Alright, you got me. There is a tiny, minor, insignificant benefit. This is not worth giving up any control of my own PC. > You'll see less spam in website comments. Highly unlikely. This will be defeated by spammers just like every other attempt to stop them is. > Fewer websites will be behind a login wall. Not just highly unlikely, but absolutely not going to happen. No site that currently requires login will change to not require login. No site will give up that user data.